On 2009/01/07 13:31, Aaron Stellman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:59:37PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 03.01.2009 at 20:51:40 +0300, Kirill S. Bychkov > > <ya...@linklevel.net> wrote: > > > This is a resubmit of apcupsd port. > > > Any comments/oks? > > > > I have no comment on the port, just a question: What would be the > > advantage of using apcupsd in favour of nut? > > Lacking advantage over nut is not a valid reason why apcupsd shouldn't > be imported to ports. There are multiple ports in the tree that do > redundant tasks -- it's a matter of choice. I used to use apcupsd myself, > and was forced to adopt nut. I don't regret it in any way.
The forerunner to this is already in-tree. The name changed slightly (removed a -) but I don't see why we shouldn't just keep the old name so that existing users can upgrade to it with pkg_add -u.
