On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:37:02AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > The ports collection is one of the crown jewels of FreeBSD. > Unfortunately, even as more ports committers are added, more and > more ports break or become harder to build. On top of that, > pkg_add has become close to worthless now that the -r feature > is so fragile. If 5.0 goes out and popular ports don't build, > it will hurt the image of FreeBSD. Please, take a break from > adding new ports and/or maintaining your pet ports and fix some > of the broken-ness.
So, just to make sure I get this straight: 1) Somebody commits a patch to -CURRENT without doing the slightest bit of analysis of its damage to ports, discussing it with the ports list, or even a HEADS UP or patch suggestions. 2) Tons of ports break. 3) Therefore, ports people should fix the breakage. Yah, right. Exactly why I don't use -CURRENT for much of anything nowadays. Too many people breaking stuff without bothering to fix it themselves in any way. So, why don't you encourage -CURRENT developers to treat ports like the crown jewel it is instead of pestering ports developers to fix their breakage? Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
