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diff --git a/ports-mgmt/portscout/pkg-descr b/ports-mgmt/portscout/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index 9df9a5e9312b..000000000000 --- a/ports-mgmt/portscout/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -portscout is a tool which looks for new versions of software in the -FreeBSD ports tree, and potentially other software repositories. - -Various factors make this task a bit more difficult than it might -initially seem. In particular, the array of weird and wonderful -versioning schemes software vendors manage to come up with. - -portscout spawns several child processes and does its version checking -in parallel, while attempting to best-guess strange-looking version -numbers, navigate around unhelpful sites and web servers, and contend -with the CPU-heavy rapidly-expanding FreeBSD ports system. - -In addition to all this, it is possible to generate nice HTML reports -and send reminder mails to interested parties. - -Regularly updated results can be found at: - http://beta.inerd.com/portscout/ - - -WWW: http://www.inerd.com/software/portscout/ |