Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:35:25 +0200 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to disable staging support in ports tree universally? Message-ID: <CA%2Bt49PJKKUdh=73GxPqt7sQ4kTGDi8SZmFsjuhW=Y1zuKC8%2BiQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ_iqtYJNz1qZ6hyP7E97XUGX4jCO=4O1ZSFybGW8KwO%2BQz%2BPA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20131012055953.GA4352@icarus.home.lan> <5259051D.7060205@FreeBSD.org> <CAJ_iqtYJNz1qZ6hyP7E97XUGX4jCO=4O1ZSFybGW8KwO%2BQz%2BPA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Staging is here to stay. There's no way of "turnng it off." If the > > Why? Why can't it be turned off? > What is the technical reason / reasoning behind this design decision? > And why is staging special, compared to all other features that has > been introduced to FreeBSD in the last few years? > > -- > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen As I've understood it, it's not so much a "feature" as an infrastructure *change* - asking to disable it is, from now on, about as meaningful as asking if you could disable the fetch stage. -- Daniel Nebdal
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