Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:57:28 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@willow.raggedclown.intra> To: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: a simple question about ports Message-ID: <20030305005728.GA2118@willow.raggedclown.intra> In-Reply-To: <15970.24231.528901.125737@guru.mired.org> References: <20030302181055.GA47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> <15970.20433.657226.491238@guru.mired.org> <20030302184719.GC47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> <15970.24231.528901.125737@guru.mired.org>
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On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:42:31PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20030302184719.GC47148@willow.raggedclown.intra>, Cliff Sarginson <cls@willow.raggedclown.intra> typed: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > In <20030302181055.GA47148@willow.raggedclown.intra>, Cliff Sarginson <cls@willow.raggedclown.intra> typed: > > > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > > Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they > > > compiled fine on the committers box. > > And aye there's the rub. > > I've found that most maintainers are willing to try and fix ports that > don't compile in your environment. You can't expect a bug to be fixed > unless you report it to someone who can fix it. > Let us straighten a few things out here, the perpetuation of this kind of nonsense puts us back in the dark Lord of Redmond world. A language is a language. Ok GCC has groovy extras to allow FreeBSD and Linux to compile. I expect that "Hello. world" will compile link and run .. yes ? Does it matter very much what CPU I have, how much memory etc..? Linking, Now we have another story. It is quite educational to find thet KDE has a dependency on a game program ;) Yup it sure does. I know people put in precious spare time to just about the best OS on the planet. But "portupgrade" just does not hack it. Ok. End of story. Otherwise I will get banned again by the inner corpus. Let us make it better. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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