Subject: Re: Ethereal removed from pkgsrc ?
To: David Sheryn <david@chromiq.org>
From: Pierrick Brossin <pierrick@bs-network.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 07/28/2006 15:06:33
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:02:46PM +0100, David Sheryn wrote:
> Would there be any advantage, in these sorts of situations, in there being
> a dummy pkgsrc stub (perhaps for one further release only of the
> pkgsrc-stable branch), such that:
> 
>   cd pkgsrc/whatever/foo ; make
> 
> results in
> 
>   Application pkgsrc/whatever/foo is now dprecated in favour of
>   pkgsrc/somethingelse/bar.  See URL for more details.
> 
> Or similar ?

That sounds like something possible to do ("broken" tag for inst. or
"cannot be built with gcc-4").

That'd be _very_ nice!


-Pierrick Brossin