Martin Opel said|sagte:
I agree with Paul Bonser's opinion in all points: It is always cool to have a unmaintained repository, in which you can search. My way to find a
Did you guys with the "search" argument read my proposition at all? You'd still have all your ports, they'd simple be in other subdirectories of /usr/ports instead of in /usr/ports/unmaintained.
port is still "prt-get info". And IMHO it is easier to fix an outdated port than to write a new one completely from scratch.
That's true. But currently every CRUX user has to do that for every outdated application in unmaintained, instead of the httpup repo maintainer doing it once. If I'm not mistaken you explicitly have in your CLC charta that you do not upgrade ports in unmaintained, that's why I didn't even bother sending you updates.
The httpup repository is a good idea, but there could arise problems with duplicates.
Of course. But I'd rather have two mozilla ports (oh wait, we already do have them, in opt and contrib!) than having five outdated ports. Even though I originally was an advocate of the unmaintained repository I came to the conclusion that it does more harm than it helps, exactly because you (the CLC guys) are not willing to maintain it at all, not even accepting updates etc. This way old ports keep being around in CRUX even though some contributors would send an updated version from time to time. Since I know that you guys don't have the time to manage the unmaintained ports I suggested you leave the management to the original contributors. Or finally start to implement a ports upload feature for the unmaintained section - since you don't guarantee anything anyway this can't do any harm. Markus. -- Markus Ackermann <maol@symlink.ch> http://maol.ch/ http://symlink.ch/