On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> wrote: > Once hackish work-arounds get committed, it is extremely difficult to > root them out. The last time the project included a temporary hack to > assist with a similar problem (the aout to ELF migration in FreeBSD > 3), it took more than a decade to get the hack out of base and after > 13 years, there are still 71 ports (by my count) with local work-arounds.
> Based on the objformat mess, whatever is done will hang around in > the tree for at least a decade so we are far better off spending > some time now to come up with the best solution, rather than quickly > committing a work-around that we spend the next decade regretting. This hack still has remnants in the tree: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/155737 -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
