On Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 17:53:32 -0700, Dan Mahoney (ports) wrote: > > We have a repo that has packages in it from no-longer launchable or > no-longer-existing jails/ports trees. (Jails going back to > release-8-eol, when we needed to build packages for systems we > couldn't update due to lack of remote hands and lack of disk > space/failing hardware/layer9 issues). IYKYK.
Maybe I misunderstand, especially since you don't mention specific
ports, but age or lack of support are not adequate reasons to remove a
port. Cases in point:
graphics/xv This hasn't been updated for years, but it Just Works.
I would be sad to see it go away.
x11/xtset Last updated in the last millennium. I use it
constantly.
> Is it likely to break anything if we just "rm" those packages or is
> there some internal state table that needs cleaning up?
Removing either of those ports would break things for me.
Greg
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