On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:55:27 -0300 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi articulated: > Or just that ports system is "frozen" because of the 8.3 release??? > > Occam's razor: > > when you have two or more competing theories > that make exactly the same predictions, > the simpler one is the better.
Actually, there are numerous "razors", Occam's being only one. Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor) is the English equivalent of the Latin lex parsimoniae --- the law of parsimony, economy or succinctness. It is a principle urging one to select among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect. It is usually translated as, "simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones". The key phase being "other things being equal". Personally, I am a strong believer in "Murphy's Law". -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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"
