From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 31 14:22:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C05314C49; Mon, 31 May 1999 14:22:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA12698; Mon, 31 May 1999 23:22:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA57704; Mon, 31 May 1999 23:22:10 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:22:10 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: abial@webgiro.com, taavi@uninet.ee, kaj@raditex.se, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? Message-ID: <19990531232210.A56135@bitbox.follo.net> References: <19990531155305.A55875@bitbox.follo.net> <199905311521.BAA92145@mail.theinternet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199905311521.BAA92145@mail.theinternet.com.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:21:46AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:21:46AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > 'Harder' is an awkward word, it has too many meanings in this context. > One meaning says that any extra exertion required rules out the change, > one meaning says that extra complexity rules out the change. I'm not > sure which one you mean or if you indeed mean both. They're the same, it is only a question of when the exertion comes. The important thing is that we do not netto loose contributions; this means that any extra complexity or work has to be outweighted by either decreasing the support work for the people presently doing the work, or make sure that new people will chip in (possibly because the increases in convenience makes them use FreeBSD instead of something else). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message