Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:13:50 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: lewst <lewst@yahoo.com>, KEVLO@FreeBSD.ORG, FREEBSD-PORTS@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where is KDE 2.0.1 ?!? Message-ID: <20001215231350.K21327@puck.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <xzphf45gi8u.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:25:21AM %2B0100 References: <20001216011910.14353.qmail@web2104.mail.yahoo.com> <xzphf45gi8u.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:25:21AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > For the love of christ man, why is it taking so long to > > update the kde2 port? KDE 2.0.1 has been out for 11 days now! > > Yes, and the port was updated four days ago. If one week's delay is > not acceptable to you, then do it yourself. If nothing else, it may > help you realize how much work it really is to make sure a port > (especially one as large and complex as KDE) builds, installs and > packages correctly. Yes, and I'd like to further echo these sentiments by pointing out that it took over 1,000 cpu hours and 150-200+ hours of my personal time to maintain these ports over a 6-month period. Please don't scream at Kevin for being about a week behind when he is not paid to do this job... unless you would like to spend about 6-12 hours or so downloading / compiling / testing / fixing PLISTs / testing again, etc yourself. KDE is one of the behemoths of the ports tree and wears out even the most tireless ports team members. Next time, show some respect. After all, you are not doing a damn thing to help, either as far as $$ or time or debugging goes. Thanks. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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