On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> Q: I want to use this cool piece of software that's in the FreeBSD
> ports system. But I can't build it on my 3.x-stable system.
>
> Why not?
>
> A: Ah, sorry. The ports system only targets -current, trying to get
> it to work with -stable is too much work. If you want to be sure
> of using the ports system successfully you need to be running
> -current.
> </advocate>
A: E-mail the port maintainer. You'll find that's a lot easier. And
if the port maintainer doesn't respond/and or you want it fixed
ASAP, instead of going through the hassel of (for new people)
learning how to cvsup make build world, etc, fix the problem
yourself.
Also: Last I checked the port system didn't "target" -current.
Infact I bet more stuff compiles under -stable than -current,
esspecially when things are getting shaken up.
I think the real issue is that people see/hear that something works under
-current and without thinking of the other tradeoffs (ie; they can't just
type 'make' and it all works without them knowing what is going on), leap
off and go to -current because at the time it was the easiest way to get
something working.
You're basically restating something we already know. -current has the
latest. Sometimes this means that it has more because its all working
pretty well, sometimes it doesn't. We know this. That's the point.
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