On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 04/25/2011 17:28, martinko wrote: >> >> Ok, >> I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the >> following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take >> over their maintenance to save them from death: > > Generally by the time that a port has deteriorated to the point where the > distfiles are gone, and it has no maintainer, it's usually a pretty good > sign that it's time to move on. This isn't just because of the distfile > issue. Every port in the tree consumes resources, whether it's for pointyhat > runs, space on the package sites (including the mirrors), etc. They also > consume time to deal with when they get broken by changes in the OS, etc. > What we're trying to do here is to eliminate ports that are no longer > useful. > > You might want to consider whether or not some of these can be replaced by > different alternatives. > >> misc/wmweather > > Give misc/wmweather+ a try. It's actively developed and maintained. > >> sysutils/wmmemmon > > There are a million other dockapps that do similar jobs, and this one does > not seem that special. :) > > As for the gimp thing that you mentioned, I don't know anything about it,
http://registry.gimp.org/node/137 "GREYCstoration has been discontinued, and is now replaced by the G'MIC project, which contains all the former GREYCstoration features, but also much much much more !" http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml (G'MIC project) Cheers, Mezz > but if you wish to become its maintainer the polite thing to do would be to > provide resources to host its distfile(s). > > > Doug > > -- > > Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. > -- OK Go > > Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. > Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- mezz.free...@gmail.com - m...@freebsd.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gn...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ 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"