-------------------------------------------- On Sun, 4/13/14, Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouq...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 11:45 AM On 4/13/2014 17:46, Matthew Rezny wrote: >>> On this list I see cfv, which I've used for years, marked just because >>> it's >>> not maintained. It works great, it needs no changes. > I'm not officially a maintainer on any ports for a few reasons. I have other > areas where I consider spending my time more valuable, but if I have to waste > it on port maintenance, I'll try to do so in the most efficient way. Well, you basically said you're more important than anybody that regularly reads this list, so good luck with that tact. .......................................................................................I regularly ........................................................................................read this list .........................................................................................and also ......................................................................................have not the ...................................................................................experience or time So you should become a committer. Try submitting the patches, including staging and assuming maintainership (and then honestly be the maintainer). Staging is not an opt-in feature so as harsh as it is to say This indicates that you haven't been paying attention. It's not a goal to have the most ports possible; ...............................................Maybe take changes to a subsection of the forum? I've posted there... A new subsection group: ports X11... WWW... DEVEL... maybe one DELETIONS ( a sticky or subsection) and/or PENDING DELETIONS ... and/or and deleted ports could be bought back again for those who find them useful, even if someone was reading about a years-ago removal. Pardiff (diffp ) comes to mind (just removed this week) I use the diffp binary for diffing ports-to-upgrade pipe results between days (diffp portlist.MON portlist.TUE) I suppose mergemaster.sh could even be updated to be more similar to the output of diffp. ..... gfontview... ... Just puttting that idea onto the forum expansion, which maybe could solve problems quicker than PR's. For instance, as of now, textproc/po4a x11/roxterm devel/dconf all fail to build "failed to load exteral entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/ xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl" " and maybe if the forum had been expanded, threads (dconf po4a roxterm) would have been started/updated explaining the fix, if anyone knew it. ............................................... Lost post en route to the list [ addressee maybe incomplete] Re-sending from the SENT folder. Sorry for the delay... _______________________________________________ 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"
