svn commit: r422154 - head/misc/fortune_strfile

Bryan Drewery bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 14 22:11:30 UTC 2016


On 9/14/16 1:32 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 14.09.2016 22:44, Bryan Drewery пишет:
> 
>> Ports need maintainers. 
> 
> Agreed. But _need_ is not _must have_.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/need
"a situation in which someone or something must do or have something"

> 
>> It is standard practice to deprecate ports without a maintainer
> 
> Then it is a bad practice.

Having ports without a maintainer is a bad practice. It leaves users
with no one to support them when things go wrong. A new compiler could
easily break this port and no one would be there to support fixing it.

> Unless you say "... to deprecate *broken/unwanted/etc* ports ...". But
> you did not.
> 


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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