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List:       freebsd-ports
Subject:    Re: Deleting old ports (Re: cvs commit: ports/audio Makefile ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/
From:       AlanE <alane () geeksrus ! net>
Date:       2002-09-15 17:17:16
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:15:35AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 12:03:31PM -0400, AlanE at FreeBSD.org wrote:
>
>> >>   2. knapster is dead, as napster is dead.
>> >
>> >Last time I tried it, there were other unofficial napster servers
>> >available, so the clients were still useful.  Is this no longer the
>> >case?
>> >
>> >Kris
>> 
>> Maintainer is no longer maintaining it, agreed to deletion.
>
>I appreciate that you want to clean up old KDE2 ports, but I think
>you're being rather too aggressive about it.  The usual procedure that
>is followed here is to mark the port FORBIDDEN for a few months and
>see if anyone comes forward with an update.  If no-one does after that
>time period has elapsed, then we know it's really unsupported by the
>ports community and can delete it.
>
>Kris

Will told me he wanted the whole thing cleaned up before the ports 
freeze, so that's what I'm trying to do.

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Alan Eldridge
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