Re: Massive port bloat caused by the recommended en-freebsd-doc

2010-03-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.03.2010, 22:16 Uhr, schrieb Hiroki Sato: Peter Olsson wrote in <1269804756.2864.94.ca...@x61s>: po> I added no options to the configs that were displayed, just removed some po> (e.g. X11 from ghostscript IIRC). I'm not so concerned with the time po> that passed, I'm just shocked by

Re: Massive port bloat caused by the recommended en-freebsd-doc

2010-03-28 Thread Hiroki Sato
Peter Olsson wrote in <1269804756.2864.94.ca...@x61s>: po> I added no options to the configs that were displayed, just removed some po> (e.g. X11 from ghostscript IIRC). I'm not so concerned with the time po> that passed, I'm just shocked by the number of ports that got installed. po> po> I'm g

Massive port bloat caused by the recommended en-freebsd-doc

2010-03-28 Thread Peter Olsson
Hello! I did a test install of 8.0-RELEASE, and during installation I let the recommended English docs remain chosen. After installation I installed portmaster, cvsuped and ran portmaster -bda. Five hours later (test PC is PIII 450) I'm in shock by the end result: Installation of devel/li

Re: Port Bloat

2006-10-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Peter Thoenen wrote: A) Making a delete port pr request. This way port maintainers INSTEAD of marking 'transfer ownership to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' and hoping somebody takes it over one day could actually just delete ports they no longer wish to maintain. There should be some sort of WARN marking

Re: Port Bloat

2006-10-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:53:32PM -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: > A couple months ago somebody posted a heads up on this list from the > FreeBSD Ports Team about ports bloat and the massive influx of new > software along with all the unmaintained ports. Has the port team ever > thought about: > >

Re: Port Bloat

2006-10-15 Thread Shaun Amott
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:53:32PM -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: > > A) Making a delete port pr request. This way port maintainers INSTEAD > of marking 'transfer ownership to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' and hoping > somebody takes it over one day could actually just delete ports they no > longer wish to mai

Re: Port Bloat

2006-10-15 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:53:32 -0500, Peter Thoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A couple months ago somebody posted a heads up on this list from the FreeBSD Ports Team about ports bloat and the massive influx of new software along with all the unmaintained ports. Has the port team ever thought abo

Re: Port Bloat

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:53:32PM -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: > B) In line with A, has anybody thought about just marking ALL > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as scheduled for deletion on X date. It turns out that a few of them are key pieces of infrastructure. Perhaps we can generate a list of "ports that w

Re: Port Bloat

2006-10-15 Thread Sam Lawrance
Peter Thoenen wrote: A couple months ago somebody posted a heads up on this list from the FreeBSD Ports Team about ports bloat and the massive influx of new software along with all the unmaintained ports. Has the port team ever thought about: A) Making a delete port pr request. This way port m

Port Bloat

2006-10-15 Thread Peter Thoenen
A couple months ago somebody posted a heads up on this list from the FreeBSD Ports Team about ports bloat and the massive influx of new software along with all the unmaintained ports. Has the port team ever thought about: A) Making a delete port pr request. This way port maintainers INSTEAD of m