On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:06, Natanael Copa wrote: > When I submit a fix/version bumb (I submit as "maintainer update") to > freebsd ports, its normally committed within hours, even if its not a > popular port. When I submit fixes for packages in Gentoo bugzilla it get > stuck for months. They must have done something right. I keep from stating my uncensored opinion about a good part of FreeBSD ports, and just say that their patch policy, as well as the one of pkgsrc that is another comparable system, is totally different from ours, and does not consider upstream presence.
And I suppose I can say that with quite enough information at hand, considering that I deal with ports every time a package fails to build on G/FBSD .. the problem is most of the times I cannot make use of the patches used by ports because they are, if not broken, sub-optimal. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound, ALSA, PAM, KDE, CJK, Ruby ...
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