Will Andrews wrote:
In 40 years of using computers, nothing has changed. The system's people are still primadona's and do nothing wrong.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?
Get used to it :). Unfortunately!! People don't install OSes because of the OS as much as the codes they can run on it. The importance tree is inverted. The people that think they are the most important are only there to provide improved tools to the people that users depend on.
Kent
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
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