FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

[Michel Talon]

I notice in the list the port math/pari which is not some obscure
abandonware, but one of the most proeminent free computer algebra software.

So i look at the pari web page and then:

niobe% fetch
http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/pari-2.5.0.tar.gz
pari-2.5.0.tar.gz                             100% of 2650 kB 6412 kBps

.....


niobe% ./Configure 
Configuring pari-2.5.0 (STABLE) 
....

Ok. Type "make install" when you are ready
Bye !

niobe% gmake gp
Making gp in Ofreebsd-i386
....


niobe% cd Ofreebsd-i386 
niobe% gp-dyn
                                     GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.5.0
(released)
                             i386 running freebsd (ix86/GMP-5.0.1
kernel) 32-bit version
                                compiled: Aug 21 2011, gcc-4.2.1
20070719  [FreeBSD]
                                   (readline v6.1 enabled, extended help
enabled)

                                       Copyright (C) 2000-2011 The PARI
Group

PARI/GP is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER.

Type ? for help, \q to quit.
Type ?12 for how to get moral (and possibly technical) support.

parisize = 4000000, primelimit = 500509
? 5*6
%1 = 30
? 

In other words everything works completely out of the box, without any
intervention. 


After that people will say that the freebsd ports are the best thing
since sliced bread!



-- 

Michel TALON