On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 09:26:45AM -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Even though I can understand why outdated software should not have > the imprimatur of OpenBSD, my feeling is that it is better to have > more packages than less. Even if some are outdated, the ports > infrastructure allows someone to copy Makefiles etc., and cobble > together a new package for their own use. However, of all these
I disagree very strongly. There are countless good www ports already you can base new ones on. We are not racing to be very strongly the BSD with the biggest amount of packages, we are trying to provide a big amount of good packages. > webapps are removed, then quite often, a user may not even know that > such an application exists and may end up wasting time on some other > platform that ostensibly supports more ports. So FWIW, if having all > the old ports does not create problems for dpb and the ports > infrastructure, it will be good to have them. I'd rather have people wasting time on some other platform that ostensibly supports more ports than staying on OpenBSD using some www application package that is totally unmaintained (port wise) because this leads to a false sense of security. We are talking about net facing applications here, I have no problem having old unmaintained stuffs in ports -- but these apps are different. > Would it be feasible to come up with some sort of reward system for > building ports/packages? If it is a useful thing to do for the > OpenBSD community and does not create any problems for the > developers and maintainers, I would like to donate to such an > effort. That is not how we work we others may disagree. -- Antoine
