Re: Remove x11/wm{i,ii}

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:08:12PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2018/03/30 23:25, Jan Klemkow wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 04:28:24PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2018/03/30 15:20, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > > > Both ports have been unmaintained for over six years. One succeeded the
> > > > other until x11/dwm came around and took over.
> > > >
> > > > We'll never see updates to these again, upstream homepages and/or
> > > > documentation at suckless, googlecode and whereever else have been
> > > > purged.
> > > >
> > > > Anselm R. Garbe keeps distribution tarballs at dl.suckless.org these
> > > > projects originated from there, but he'd be happy to see the ports
> > > > removed.
> > > >
> > > > New users are encouraged to use dwm.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts? OK to remove x11/wmi and x11/wmii?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Is there any benefit to removing them? It doesn't really matter that
> > > they don't have maintainers if there are no updates upstream anyway!
> > >
> > > Happy to host the distfiles if suckless people want to kill their copy.
> >
> > Theses projects are dead and x11/dwm is the official successor.
> >
> > IMHO: delete the port.
> >
> > bye,
> > Jan
> >
>
> We still have WMs in tree that were dead before wmi was written. The
> two aren't getting the way of anything, take a few seconds to build,
> less than a MB on mirrors, no big chain of dependencies (and you
> don't have to recompile to change configuration ;)
>
> Which WM to use is quite a personal choice. Not OK with me without a
> better reason than this.

I side with Stuart on that one...