On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:33:17 Robert Huff wrote: > per...@pluto.rain.com writes: > > > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; > > > no releases in the past 3 years > > > > This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :) > > > > While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port, > > the fact that something has not changed in a long time could just > > as well mean that it does its job well -- and thus does not need > > to be updated -- as that it is no longer useful. > > Are there criteria - or even guidelines - for when a port > should be reaped?
Sure, if the port has been broken for more than 6 months, it's abandoned (website is gone and port isn't fetchable from outside mirrors) or it's been replaced. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
