On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:15:47PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Apr 19, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Matthew Grooms <mgro...@shrew.net> wrote: > > > > On 4/19/2016 3:09 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> As far as I know, nobody is taking the source code or the Makefiles > >> away, so if somebody doesn't like the system being distributed with > >> pkg, they can very well roll their own. > >> > >> It's nice to see the level of enthusiasm the FreeBSD project can > >> muster, I just wish it wasn't always enthusiasm for stopping progress. > >> > > > > Maybe I missed an email in this thread, but I don't recall > > anyone completely rejecting the idea of packaging the base system. > > What I see is a discussion related to doing it in the best way > > possible. > > Sadly the tenor and tone of the discussion isn’t one where progress > is made. The tone has been a bit toxic and demanding, which grinds > people into dust, rather than motivating them to fix things. You > might call it a discussion, but it reads to me more as a bunch of > angry villagers storming the castle. No good can come from that. > Tone down the outrage by a factor of 100 and try to have the > conversation again. >
As probably the most demotivated person to read through this onslaught of nonsense, I cannot agree more. Glen
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