Re: Aggressive ports removal

2020-08-30 Thread Dave Hayes
t's ability to run legacy software, and a port that does not need maintenance isn't "dead" if it never needs maintenance in the first place. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - LA CA, USA - d...@dream-tech.com >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own*

Bug 251656

2020-12-08 Thread Dave Hayes
Is there a method for getting this assigned? I'll admit I misspelled the port name in the subject, but now how do I fix the process? Thanks in advance. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - LA CA, USA - d...@dream-tech.com >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <

Re: Errors building mysql55-client

2013-07-08 Thread Dave Hayes
n this. I'll file a PR too if I get no response to this message. :) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. _

FreeBSD Bug 196703, p5-Wx, wxglade, and webkit-gtk2

2015-02-11 Thread Dave Hayes
> ldd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core_.so | grep stdc libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x803789000) Any insight would be warmly appreciated. Thank you. :) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The o

databases/mysql-udf-preg

2014-08-21 Thread Dave Hayes
ng on? Thanks. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. ___ freebsd-ports@

Inconsistency? (was Re: misc/jive deleted)

2016-10-24 Thread Dave Hayes
) is left there ... even though there are numerous searchable stories about that image being offensive to some religious people? Thank you for your cogent reply. :) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are ent

Re: Expulsion of John Marino - reasons and impact?

2017-02-15 Thread Dave Hayes
r contributors needed to improve and unfortunately they did not. Don't you think his name is -already- dragged through the mud by having one's commit bit removed with reasons as stated above? Just curious. :) -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>&g

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Dave Hayes
recent security patches, revision mismatch, etc) anyway, HEAD or no. I find I have to handle less with the quarterlies because they do generally build cleanly. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Dave Hayes
hat OS you use these days. -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< It is only knowledge that will destroy bias. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.o

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-22 Thread Dave Hayes
it is not the latest version and it would be reasonable to have node always be at the latest version. Would you agree that release branches would be unnecessary if somehow you could select the version of node that the ports tree builds via some (as yet unspecified) mechanism? -- Dave Hayes -

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-25 Thread Dave Hayes
ce is not supposed to be like that so much, but I think we all know differently here. To be absolutely clear, I'm not demanding or insisting on anything here out of ports maintainers or FreeBSD. I can and do support myself, when I am able. I'm merely pointing out ideas which may

Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version

2017-06-26 Thread Dave Hayes
involved in making each value of that knob actually build is probably prohibitive, but it would allow various people to focus on the versions that matter to them. This would also limit discussions like these to specific support for specific ports, but those happen anyway so at least this particular

Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

2018-02-07 Thread Dave Hayes
On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 02:42:12 +0300 Rozhuk Ivan wrote: > Such a reaction is not appropriate for educated people. Are you actually implying that modern education somehow teaches emotional stability? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opi

Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

2018-02-07 Thread Dave Hayes
nst pale moon, someone knowledgeable about it should engage in some advocacy as to why Pale Moon is something to use? -- Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org >>>> *The opinions expressed above are entirely my own* <<<< It is no accident that those c