On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 08:49:09PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
> On the other hand, realize that no one asked you in the first place,
> you provided your list voluntarily (without even being prompted by a
> single 'so?'). No one "asked you to defend" your opinion. Anyway, you
> should care why Joachim doesn't like it because he is a developer so
> probably has good insights about OpenBSD-related things. If he says
> what you're making is missing things that pkg_* already has then he is
> probably correct.
>
> Joachim was very civil in his message, and gave each of your points a
> fair evaluation. What if he had taken your completely new ports system
> as an insult to all the work that has been done on pkg_*? You should
> realize this.
Well, two smallish points:
1. I am only a developer in the sense that I wrote a couple of
random scripts and some C code to calculate stuff, only one piece of
which ever made it onto misc@ (much less into the tree - I'm not much of
a coder, really, though I'm trying to improve);
2. Han is, arguably, right - I don't care for his work, and
don't really believe his points for proposing it are worth the bother,
but I could have phrased that quite a bit more constructively. For
instance, mentioning that the 'merge /etc' part could, when done right
(which is not easy), be interesting. Which I did, in a roundabout way,
but...
Joachim
