- unmaintained is a problem in itself. There are outdated and non-working ports, and nobody is responsible for them. I think it's worse to have such a repository than not having one at all.
Hmm, personally, I like having the unmaintained ports there. I can search in the /usr/ports dir for something I want to install, and if it is in the unmaintained dir, I know that it's there, and it's usually less work to fix it to be current. Many of them still work fine with just a simple version number change, and if they don't it's often just a matter of googling for the new website. I strongly dissagree with completely removing the unmaintained ports. Perhaps have them be an optional download when you sync your ports dir, but not get rid of them all together. Linux is all about options, I would hate to see some of them limited... As a side note, I've updated a fairly good number of ports in the unmaintained directory, and created some of my own as well. This is a listing of my personal ports dir, and I hope to have them on my webpage sometime soon (the ones that are done, that is). Note that a couple of them still have problems, and a few are just ones that I put there to remind myself that I wanted to make ports of them. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 Oct 9 11:55 bittorrent drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 240 Oct 6 20:28 bochs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 232 Oct 6 20:28 docbook-utils drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 216 Oct 6 20:28 fluxbox drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 216 Oct 6 20:28 fluxbox-dev drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 192 Oct 14 12:02 gnutls drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 248 Oct 9 11:34 gtkseet drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 208 Oct 6 20:28 jaffm drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 336 Oct 14 12:08 libgcrypt drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 120 Oct 14 00:29 libgpg-error drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Oct 6 20:28 libmrproject drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 120 Oct 14 00:42 libtasn1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 248 Oct 6 20:28 mp3blaster drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 88 Oct 6 20:28 mrproject drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 192 Oct 14 12:23 opencdk drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 208 Oct 6 20:28 plan drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 152 Oct 6 21:57 powervr drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 392 Oct 7 17:02 sdl_ttf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 216 Oct 13 17:52 wmbluecpu drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 208 Oct 6 20:28 wmcalc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 Oct 13 17:56 wmmemfree drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 176 Oct 13 18:17 wmmultipop3 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 184 Oct 9 18:07 wxpython drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 Oct 8 00:23 xine-lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256 Oct 6 20:28 xine-ui drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 288 Oct 16 18:18 xmule drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Oct 6 20:28 zcalc Anyway, I'll post about these again when I have them up so that I can ask about being a maintainer. -Paul Bonser _________________________________________________________________ Send instant messages to anyone on your contact list with MSN Messenger 6.0. Try it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com