On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Hannes Mayer wrote:
About the ports, i agree with ronny. Its not very cool, simple kick them out. If the Maintainer has no time, is there no other? Or why don't ask somebody if he will maintain this Ports. All ports in there own repository isn't a good solution.
I fully understand that ports sometimes must be deleted from the official repos due to the lack of maintenance, and I don't really have a problem with that, except that I find the "surprise" effect slightly annoying. Sometimes you don't notice that a port is gone for some time, and then when you need it you must dig in backups/git repositories/what have you in order to find a copy. How about posting a warning notice to this list, something along the lines of "In two weeks time the following ports will be removed from the official repos"? That would give people ample time to backup/repackage/whatever before the port disappears. Who knows, there might even pop up the occasional new maintainer... ;-) -- Hälsningar/Best regards, Tom ________________________________________________________________________ Tom Rindborg Phone: +46-8-599 984 40 Stockholm, Sweden MailTo:Tom.Rindborg@fatburen.org "If you have to hate, hate gently."