Ports having adduser

[Wahlstedt Jyrki]

On 10.11.2012, at 9.03, Andrea D'Amore <and.damore at macports.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Wahlstedt Jyrki <jwa at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> Some of these ports are more or less obsolete, I recognise old postgresql to
>> be such (new installs don't get those), as well as mysql4/5. So, how many of
>> these ports are active, really?
> 
> Active has a specific meaning in mp, so the answer is: as many ports
> among those are active as you installed (circa, since you could have
> deactivated some).
> 
> But I'm not sure to get the point, are you trying to "spring clean"
> ports' tree by spotting out old software?
> 
> 
> --
> Andrea)

Hi,
a while ago there was some discussion related to user handling, so as this 'adduser …' is the old way to do it, I just checked, how many ports there were really still having it.
This serves also slightly as a check, whether some ports are obsoleted. There are two sides in this 'active' thing, port development and port deployment. I looked here at the other side, seeing active as an opposite of something undeveloped or unmaintained. At some point it could be a good idea to drop some ports, e.g. I'd say postgresql7 is perhaps a candidate in my list being undeveloped upstream a long time already.

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