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[Rusmir Dusko]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:52:18 +0100
John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:

> On 3/27/2014 14:45, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > 
> > I am acknowledging this fact; I just don't see a point of removing ports
> > that build and package fine just because they are unmaintained.  I am not
> > saying that all of those ports are useful for me, but once in a while I'm
> > faced with the fact that port I need right now was deprecated and removed
> > for no real reason.  I don't like that.
> 
> Well, one good reason would be if the port is not staged.  I got the
> idea that you expect random committers to stage the remaining ports,
> maintained or not.
> 
> I think it's perfectly legitimate to look at an unmaintained port that
> needs staging and say, "You know what?  it's not worth it, nobody cares
> about it, just set it to deprecate and kill it.  Why should *I* care
> about this port if nobody else in 12 years has cared about it.

Ok this is good reason I now look to stage all deprecated games.
But FreeBSD not have all enough time in so short time to stage all ports,
this need minimum one Year for all.
 
> Since most of your argument is about how these ports are useful to you,
> I'd recommend that you review the "deprecated" post on a month basis and
> claim the deprecated ports that you care about.  If you don't, you
> really don't have that much room to complain I think.
> 
> JOhn

And for deprecate is better to use one month not only two weeks, this have
I used for my ports.

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Best regards,
Rusmir Dusko