On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Chris H <bsd-li...@bsdforge.com> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:11:50 -0800 (PST) Roger Marquis <marq...@roble.com> > wrote > >> > The dialog option you talk about says: >> > [ ] REPLACE_BASE EOL, no longer supported >> > I'm quite sure the end-user you're talking about can get a clue from it, >> > and if he either already had selected it before, or he just selected it, he >> > will get: >> > ===> bind99-9.9.6P1_3 REPLACE_BASE is no longer supported. >> > The end-user can then get another clue and maybe unselect it. >> >> Maybe you're right but, to perhaps better illustrate the point, you would >> never see something like this in Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, or SuSE. > Honestly. Need I remind you, this is FreeBSD, *not* Linux? > In all honesty, I am *not* pleased with the current efforts to > turn the FreeBSD motto "The Power to Serve" into > "FreeBSD, it's the new Linux". But I [begrudgingly] understand the > inclination to do so.
The Power to Serve can only be brought to bear if a small-shop sysadmin isn't afraid to touch their ports. > That said. While I understand your inclination to think FreeBSD > must somehow be broken, when it doesn't operate as you're accustomed > with Linux. This is FreeBSD, after all, and as hard as everyone works > to eliminate the element of surprise, this is still FreeBSD. > So celebrate the difference. Don't curse it, or more importantly; > it's hard working developers. :) None of this is intended to disparage the teams. Royce _______________________________________________ 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"
