Jason J. Hellenthal wrote:
martinko,
Hi, Ive read your post below and the following two messages on this
among other messages regarding the deprecation of ports.
One thing that should be noted is that once the deprecation process is
done and over and the port nolonger becomes part of the tree, you are
still more than able and welcome to keep the distfiles you have as well
checkout just the port directory in question that you are worried about
to a seperate place other than the ports tree to maintain it locally.
The port may not exactly be in the snapshot tree but just because of
that does not mean it will not work for you from a different location.
Also note that it may actually be good practice for those that need to
use those ports but are unsure of exactly what it involves to upkeep
them. It could lead you to another time where you might be interested in
being the maintainer for that port.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:47:30AM +0200, martinko wrote:
Hi all,
So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ??
I'm asking because I've been using it successfully for more than a year
and installed it again just this weekend without any issue. And I've
read in the mailing lists many others use it too. So why all that
black-listing ? Should I copy the port to my home folder for future
installations ? Or can I / we do something about keeping it in the
ports tree ? I would surely appreciate if it could stay there.
Hi Jason,
Sure I can do it and it was part of my original question. The thing is
that it's not only about myself -- whenever I would install FreeBSD (or
PC-BSD) to someone and they would ask about Skype (which is very often)
I would have to get the old port and distfile, which complicates things
just a bit more. Also new users checking on what FreeBSD provides find
that Skype is deprecated and that may be one more reason for them to
avoid FreeBSD. I believe the project should make it easier, not more
difficult, for people to get onboard. Even Linux distributions that
want to keep their main repos clean of non-free software have
"problematic" stuff in a "non-free" repo easily available.
Regards,
Martin
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