On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Robert Huff wrote:
        It is also possible it is only important to a fairly small
number ... but to those it is absolutely crucial.
Or the port might become useful/essential/critical to somebody in the future...

What is not broken -- just old, like databases/db2 or www/apache13*, for example -- should be left alone (until it becomes both broken and unmaintained). And even then, the removal should not be mass-scale/automatic...

Maybe, for cleanliness and neatness, we should have a separate directory (and category): "obsolete" -- where ports can go to die peacefully. But it should not be cvs' "Attic"...

   -mi

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