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.
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