<div dir="auto"><div>I personally feel that the developer has the right of having their own opinion, and rightly so. Lots of commercial software do not contribute back to the foundation made by open source projects and the fact that it is taken for granted that someone is working free on such important piece of software makes me uncomfortable.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If the developer decides to stop working on the code, and the code stops working on some machines, then maybe deleting the package has a reason.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At this point, I think Macports should keep shipping osxfuse and related ports in binary form. But we already faced this discussion... 😂 </div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 18 May 2021, 02:27 Mark Anderson, <<a href="mailto:mark@macports.org">mark@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I agree with Perry, partly because the developer seems combative and I worry what happens if he decides to stop working on it one day.</div><div><br></div><div>But I also don't want to remove all the ports - this kinda leads into why I want cask like functionality, but then again, who would notice if they just wanted to install ssh-fuse or something.</div><div><br></div><div>My other issue is we have two ports - which I think Ryan indicated is kinda confusing/bad. That one seems easiest to fix.</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>—Mark<br></div><div>_______________________<br>Mark E. Anderson <<a href="mailto:mark@macports.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mark@macports.org</a>><br></div><div><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">MacPorts Trac WikiPage</a><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/markemer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">GitHub Profile</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 7:06 PM Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On May 17, 2021, at 08:44, Perry E. Metzger wrote:<br>
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> On 5/17/21 01:44, Ryan Schmidt wrote:<br>
>> On May 16, 2021, at 21:49, Mark Anderson wrote:<br>
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>>> Given some of our recent back and forth, I found this interesting: <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/74812" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/74812</a><br>
>> Meh. They have different priorities than we do. No reason for us to follow what they do.<br>
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> In this instance, though, I think their reasoning is correct.<br>
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So you would like MacPorts to delete all ports that depend on osxfuse, and all ports that depend on those ports, and so on?<br>
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Each of those ports was added to MacPorts because someone wanted it. What are they to do once we delete them?<br>
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