On 05/10/2014 08:48 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On 11 May 2014 03:33, Bryan Drewery <bdrew...@freebsd.org> wrote: > [...] >> So we will be DEPRECATING and resetting maintainer on all unstaged ports >> on June 31st. >> >> These ports will be set to EXPIRE on August 31st and will then be >> removed from the tree. They will not be restored unless someone stages >> them as well. > > The problem I have with this decision is that there are some complex > ports which have no single maintainer (case in point: eclipse-devel); > and whose patch-submitters only occasionally dabble with the port. > Staging support for these ports sometimes tend to be over-complex, and > one that yield no immediate benefit to the submitter. > > And then there are the ports which have their have their home-baked > installer, where adding staging support could mean wholesale changes > to the port. > > It used to be the philosophy of FreeBSD to favour pragmatism over > ideology. I must admit to some disappointment over this decision to > force staging as the "one true way".
I have noticed that "make all" now includes the staging as well as building. That is to say, it looks like there is a rather wholesale reordering of how ports build and install. From this I conclude it is becoming harder to include the legacy NO_STAGE code, which presumably must stick to the old way of doing things. Of course I might be wrong. But if I am right, then it will become increasingly difficult to allow unstaged ports. _______________________________________________ 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"
