From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Feb 12 13:21:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966413F40; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 13:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7F1711C41; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:21:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:21:52 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: David O'Brien , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Message-ID: <20000212162152.E92177@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000209215806.M99353@abc.123.org> <00021212385600.02144@localhost.localdomain> <20000212111504.N5570@dragon.nuxi.com> <00021214243300.02300@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00021214243300.02300@localhost.localdomain>; from rkw@dataplex.net on Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 01:58:14PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 01:58:14PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > **** TAKE THIS TO PORTS@FREEBSD.ORG ***** > Agreed. This is where the depth of the discussion should take place. > > > This is NOT a -current issue!! > I beg to differ. Any significant change to the status-quo is a -current issue. > > To adopt ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE without widespread public notice is just > inviting grumblings of "backroom politics". Just see what happens if the City > Council votes to close Main Street and explains " this was discussed at a Public > Hearing before the Public Works Commission" > > And some of us, myself included, are advocating making FreeBSD into a small set > of ports! > > I guess that doesn't affect very many people :-) You are very wrong. We are not "adopting significant change", we are discussing possibilities. Discussions related to ports/packages belong on freebsd-ports. Please read the mail charters. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 PS. The reason that "Public Works Commissions" of the world exist is because City Councils trust their departments to make informed reccomendations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message