Monday, April 18, 2022

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

Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> writes:

> 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.

I looked, I don't see anything.

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