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Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at freebsd.org
Sat May 9 06:09:02 UTC 2020


On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 03:32:45PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote:
> ...
> I'm certain we cannot agree on this point, but let me retort anyway:
> this situation is not the worst, it's the _best_ possible situation!
> 
> It conveys to an interested (!) user that sysutils/hidesvn had a
> working port to FreeBSD that was working at some time. It conveys the
> place/category in the ports tree it was in, and it gives them an
> opportunity to fix the port (it's just a size mismatch after all).
> 
> It makes no difference to the user running `pkg add`, yes. And I would
> say that keeping the broken port around and run shlib bumps against it
> isn't that much of a burden to the project.

This very well describes my viewpoint as well.  Unfortunately Ulrich,
we're the minority.

./danfe


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