On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:42:07 -0700 Janky Jay, III wrote: > Hello scratch, > > On 12/11/2016 03:35 PM, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > > I have to admit that I avoid ports if at all possible because > > I've hardly ever been able to do a build that ran to completion. > > There's always some piece of code that's missing and can't be > > found, or is the wrong version, et lengthy cetera. I've never > > done release engineering, but I honestly can't imagine how some > > of the stuff that makes its way into the ports tree ever got past > > QA. It would get someone sacked if it happened in industry. > > > > If the dev schedule would SLOW DOWN and the commitment switched > > to quality from the current emphasis on frequency, with separate > > trees for alpha-, beta-, and real release-quality, fully-vetted > > code, the ports system might become usable again. > > This very, VERY rarely happens to me and I use ports *ONLY* in > production environments.
I have a desktop with a lot of server ports installed on it and find that the build problems I have are overwhelmingly desktop related. Even on the desktop I don't find it to be more than an irritation. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
