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Broken FreeBSD Ports Scheduled for Removal

Posted by michael on from the tick-tock-tick-tock dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Kris Kennaway says that the following FreeBSD ports are scheduled for removal on November 7 if they are still broken at that time and no PRs have been submitted to fix them. If you are interested in saving these ports, please send your patches to the maintainer. If the maintainer is unresponsive or the port has no maintainer, then please submit them via send-pr."

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  1. Will portupgrade ... by forsetti · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... remove the port if I have it installed, since my post Nov 7 cvsup will remove the port from my ports directory?

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    10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
  2. Re:Firebird by Sevn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, it's Firebird the database that is so insignificant it's been broken in ports forever and nobody noticed. Not Firebird the most kickass and bestest browser ever and stuff.

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    For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
  3. Re:Good. by Piquan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I disagree, at least in part. I saw some software in there that I had manually installed and didn't realize was in ports. I saw some stuff that I use but rarely update.

    Also, just because a port is marked as broken doesn't mean no one has made an effort. There may be outstanding dialog with the developers or maintainers, and it hasn't produced a fix yet.