Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:50:59 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c Message-ID: <20010313155059P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <3AAEA597.81830243@originative.co.uk> References: <3AAEA0B6.669CB86C@originative.co.uk> <20010313143849.A19262@mollari.cthul.hu> <3AAEA597.81830243@originative.co.uk>
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> So to use the ports system you must upgrade your system every three > months? That's just ridiculous, nobody in the "real world" upgrades > their systems that often, including the project itself. That's hardly the case. To use the ports system as a user who doesn't want to upgrade things, you need to simply LEAVE IT ALONE. Don't run cvsup, don't use CTM, no-touchie ports tree! I see later in this thread, in fact, that you say we should simply do less work in -stable to avoid perturberation, an argument which at its core says that leaving things alone is the way to go. At the core, I agree, but I think leaving things alone is the user's job if they don't want unpleasant things to happen. They don't need the latest and greatests ports, they've already got some 4500 to choose from and if some percentage of them goes stale because they don't update then tough, that's life in the big city. When the level of staleness reaches a threshold they can't deal with, that's an excellent time for them to upgrade to whatever the most current release is. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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