Monday, April 18, 2022

Re: Strip ancient "OBSOLETE" sections from bsd.port.mk(5)

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 09:31:05AM -0600, Aaron Bieber wrote:
>
> Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 12:21:32PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> >> Beyond which, we don't keep legacy pf.conf information around because the
> >> other BSDs use an ancient version of PF and they might want to migrate to
> >> OpenBSD.
> >
> > We also don't tell people to peek into FreeBSD's config for pf, whereas
> > it's frequently a good idea to look at what shit the other BSDs ran into
> > when porting/updating software
>
> Do we tell them to peak into FreeBSD ports anywhere?

Unless that's been removed from the ports FAQ or general advice recently,
yes.

It is a good idea to see what other BSDs did, since we're still closer
to them than anything linux.

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