On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:45:35PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 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 
> > > <[email protected]> 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.

I would be very much surprised if there are actual users of
sysutils/apc-upsd.
 * It's from 1999 (support for newer models isn't there)
 * distfile isn't even fetch'able
 * config file went through drastic changes (users probably should be
 notified)

In any case, keeping the old name probably does make sense for other
reasons.

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