Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:58:59 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Gan Starling <MisteraSturno@worldnet.att.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken packages in FreeBSD? -- KDE 2?, Gnome? Message-ID: <20010918085859.A47237@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3BA779D3.D084C3F8@worldnet.att.net>; from MisteraSturno@worldnet.att.net on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:44:03AM -0500 References: <3BA779D3.D084C3F8@worldnet.att.net>
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--rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:44:03AM -0500, Gan Starling wrote: > Does the FreeBSD package system admit of known broken packages? NetBSD, > it would seem, does not. Are there any converts there from NetBSD to > FreeBSD who are able to tell me if the package system for FreeBSD is > more honest about its degree of brokenness than is the package system > for NetBSD? Packages are believed to work, except where they don't. When they don't, talk to the developers or the port maintainer and report the problem as thoroughly as you can. KDE and GNOME are both very complex pieces of code. They contain bugs, and may in fact "not work right", depending on whether or not any of the bugs you encounter are in areas you consider serious. There's nothing much you can really do about that, except spending some time fixing them yourself or perhaps paying a developer to work on it - that's just reality. =46rom the problems you described in your email, (and forgive me for being blunt) it sounds like you have the wrong attitude for working with an open source community like NetBSD or FreeBSD..when you encounter problems, some of the responsibility is on you to actually track them down and report them to the best of your ability, or live with it. Kris --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7p29CWry0BWjoQKURAgrZAKCpKXS3bkKHxc3qsAh6nXWcZyW9hwCeJKz0 IPqrZARMz1QK+6ix7A+XOfg= =vitm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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