Re: ports/29137: Brand New Tripwire-2.3.1 Port (fwd)

From: Crist J. Clark (cristjc@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/30/01 

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:51:31 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:07:12 MST, "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
>
> > As long as the maintainers are still willing to keep them up, I don't
> > see any reason to remove them. Of course, if one of the maintainers
> > (you for example) no longer wish to support one, unless someone else
> > speaks up to support it, it should go.
>
> I think you're approaching this from the wrong angle. The default
> should be to update existing ports rather than spawn new ones. Special
> considerations may motivate you to add new ports (e.g. a new version of
> a package with an incompatible configuration file syntax), but that
> should never be the default.

But weren't you the one who posted the reasons, and they are valid
reasons, why there are different ports? 

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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