Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:13:10 +0100 From: macgyver <macgyver@calibre-solutions.co.uk> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future for FBSD on alpha Message-ID: <1217607190.8664.9.camel@executor> In-Reply-To: <20080801110614.GA17503@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0808010200470.31933-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <c5a0176c6533491b7d9dcfbd1c5ca0ed.squirrel@webmail.calibre-solutions.co.uk> <20080801110614.GA17503@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:06 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:34:25AM -0000, Angus MacGyver wrote: > > > > The we must do - if this is going to go ahead, - is to make reasonable > > decisions about what ports are the "most wanted" - say apache22 and mysql > > for example - and not "care" about something like "joe" (I just use these > > as examples - after all one can use a different editor - but a different > > webserver or DB is another matter) > > this sounds like a good idea - a list of most wanted ports. > However, even 1 or 2 big ports might require lots of dependencies. > For example I've 229 ports at present, of which only 20 or so > are top level, like ImageMagick, xpdf, teTeX, some X clients. > Big ports - yeah true - gotta start somewhere mind... I have 84 on this replacement x86 box - and it won't have been much different from the AXP machine - as it does pretty much same job. Another question that probably needs answering - and that may well skew what ports will be required - what do we all use AXP's for ? Me for example ran one as a webserver with no graphics card - just serial line access (the jails were each DNS/IRC/Mail/Http for isolation) I also ran another virtually identical (+gfx card) machine as a desktop (tell you what - I *knew* when I had that thing turned on - I didn't need to have the heating on upstairs!!!) Completely different uses will radically alter what ports are required. Regards AM
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