On 10 September 2011 06:45, Conrad J. Sabatier <conr...@cox.net> wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:05:49 +0200 > Matthias Andree <matthias.and...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Am 09.09.2011 11:09, schrieb Conrad J. Sabatier: >> > On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:54:36 +0200 >> > Matthias Andree <mand...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> No, you'd use a managed installation. Nobody stands there >> >> pointing a gun at your head and forces you to uninstall a port >> >> that got removed from the ports/ tree. If people could recognize >> >> that, it might help get the derailed discussion back on the right >> >> track. >> > >> > You fail to take into account the case where a port may need to be >> > reinstalled. An extraordinary effort is required if the port no >> > longer exists in the ports tree. >> >> If a "port may need to be reinstalled" then you failed organize proper >> backups. Not a valid point here. > > Not necessarily. A simple bump in library versioning could require > ports to be rebuilt. > >> > Frankly, I'm growing increasingly concerned that this push to >> > eliminate ports is getting out of control. I don't much care for >> > the notion that, having invested the time in installing, >> > configuring and tuning a certain set of software packages, suddenly >> > the rug could be pulled out from under me, so to speak, in essence >> > *forcing* me to abandon using certain packages or else deal with >> > maintaining them (in the ports maintainer sense) on my own. >> >> The rug is pulled by the upstream maintainers abandoning their >> software, not by FreeBSD no longer packaging it years after the fact. > > While I understand the reasoning behind this, I still feel that as long > as a package continues to build and run without any known issues, then > why be in a rush to drop it? The argument that "the ports collection > is not a museum" is valid to some degree, but if a package is still > usable (and useful), then aren't we shooting ourselves in the foot by > dropping it? >
Can we please change the subject line? Most of us are in agreement that this particular case is not that questionable. This thread is for volunteers to fix cfs. Chris _______________________________________________ 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"
