From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Nov 15 22:59:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAE237B427; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:59:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fAG6xfQ37651; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:59:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAG706u17255; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:00:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:00:06 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Andreas Klemm Cc: Cyrille Lefevre , "David O'Brien" , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PORTVERSION=6.1 wrong in linux_base-62 ??? Message-ID: <20011115230006.B1610@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20011115123424.B36113@kayak.xcllnt.net> <200111160336.fAG3abG13456@gits.dyndns.org> <20011115211037.B721@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20011116062954.GB3852@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011116062954.GB3852@titan.klemm.gtn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:29:54AM +0100, Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:10:37PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > We don't need ports for that. People have all the freedom to > > remove and install packages to tweak the environment for their > > needs. The port is kept clean especially for that reason. > > I would be more than glad seeing the old spirit, that the > port maintainer does his best, to get best results without > having n people spending their time to fiddle around. The best results are achieved by providing the least amount of packages that still create a consistent and workable environment, without trying to solve the worlds problems. Any other solution is going to hurt; one way or the other. > If only the new staroffice works with the linux_base7 port, then > I think this port is not of much use at all, since I can't imaging > of a person who uses only staroffice and no linux-navigatore etc ... What can I do? Wait until every application works with RH 7 before creating the port? I tried that; doesn't work. People still complain it's not there. Creating the port stops one group of people, but makes another group of people start complaining. > So could somebody please try to find out, if there is a possibility, > to use the newest libs, provide compat libs for older linux binaries... Ask Red Hat... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message