svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 27 09:59:28 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 08:54:33PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 27/01/2016 8:36 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Right, and it does way "may be", not "will [eventually] be" or something.
> > Yet every time someone puts a DEPRECATED without EXPIRATION_DATE, someone
> > else will ask why is that.
> 
> 'may be' in this context means 'can be'

OK, still does not imply that it will evicted, while EXPIRATION_DATE does.

I prefer software that says forever (well, as long as the Ports Tree and
FreeBSD themselves).  Unconditionally EOLing ports on their inception is
IMHO atrocious (in reply to adjacent email).

./danfe


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