Re: Killing some old packages

On Thursday,  9 October 2025 at 17:53:32 -0700, Dan Mahoney (ports) wrote:
>
> We have a repo that has packages in it from no-longer launchable or
> no-longer-existing jails/ports trees.  (Jails going back to
> release-8-eol, when we needed to build packages for systems we
> couldn't update due to lack of remote hands and lack of disk
> space/failing hardware/layer9 issues).  IYKYK.

Maybe I misunderstand, especially since you don't mention specific
ports, but age or lack of support are not adequate reasons to remove a
port.  Cases in point:

 graphics/xv  This hasn't been updated for years, but it Just Works.
 	      I would be sad to see it go away.

 x11/xtset    Last updated in the last millennium.  I use it
 	      constantly.

> Is it likely to break anything if we just "rm" those packages or is
> there some internal state table that needs cleaning up?

Removing either of those ports would break things for me.

Greg
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