On 24 Apr 2013 05:36, "Justin Edward Muniz" <justin.mu...@maine.edu> wrote: > > > > > Justin I say stick to FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng becomes > > more popular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary packages > > become more popular . Kports is a monster program , you should set a > > reasonable goal ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup project > > . Also a update notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would be > > very useful . > > > > My 2cents . > > --- > > Mark saad | mark.s...@longcount.org > > > > > Thank you very much Mark, > > I was definitely hoping to get community feedback on this, and I value > you voicing your opinion. I agree that kports is a mammoth, and also that a > system updater GUI should have a way to notify the user of new updates. > > Any other perspectives are welcome, as well as support for a > freebsd-update approach. I am working to refine my proposal, which as > you've pointed out is very important. Eventually I would like to help in > all three mentioned areas, but for now I must focus on one application. > Does anyone think that a custom kernel configuration and management GUI > utility would be desirable? > > I will shape my goals to meet the needs of the community.
Our kernel is actually very easy to configure, so I'm not convinced that it's needed; you may be thinking of Linux's menuconfig, but I think that is because of the complexity. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
