Subject: Re: a way to deprecate packages?
To: None <rh@vip.at>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/12/1999 23:23:45
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Rene Hexel wrote:
> > or to say "this package is fine, but don't build it in bulk builds"
> > this could be of interrest to prevent conflicting pkgs or pkgs foo and
> > foo-current.
>
> What about removing them from the category's Makefile? This should
> effectively do the job. You can then still build the package by hand if
> you wish.
Um, I want something that still runs some selected targets. Like readme
and some others (maybe user-selected via some variable).
> > .if ${MAINTAINER} = "packages@netbsd.org"
> > BROKEN= unmaintained
> > .endif
>
> That would be a bit too drastic, I think. From time to time, I walk
> through packages maintained by others (or packages@) and fix some minor
> problems, but I definitely don't want to become the maintainer for these
> (for lack of time/resources/interest/whatever). Heck, if that was the
> case, defuzzing would have made me the maintainer of ten times the
> amount of packages I could handle ;-)
Heh, sure. Maybe I should have added a ";-)" to my original message. :-)
- Hubert
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