svn commit: r367769 - in head: . emulators emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/9/2014 4:30 PM, John Marino wrote:
> On 9/9/2014 23:25, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy does not have a dependency on unstaged
>> emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy. Naturally decke@ was not notified.
> 
> Okay, so the issue is the kmod port?
> I didn't realize it had a function by itself, I thought it existed
> solely for virtualbox-ose-legacy.
> 
> 
>> It is not proper to remove a port without a deprecation period if it
>> works and has no other reason to be removed.
>>
>> btw decke@ still is a portmgr.
> 
> 
> The language is inexcusable.
> 
> If virtualbox-ose-kmod-legacy is useful by itself, I'm happy to restore it.
> 
> John
> 

We have no idea if it is useful by itself. Ports are not the only
consumers of leaf ports. Users also use leaf ports as dependencies. This
is one of the reasons we use a deprecation period before removing
something. It gives people time to chime in if it actually is useful for
something by itself.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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