Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 08:27:24 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports/packages--misunderstood Message-ID: <13647.11810.943744.215716@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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> [ Jordan K. Hubbard said: ] > > Blech. I don't participate in dicussions there because their > braindead (sorry, braindead) discussion threader makes it too darn > difficult to figure out where the discussion is at any given point and > which of the many independent threads one should reply to. It's just > not worth the hassle when I can just stick to NEWS (which has its own > problems, yes, but at least they're tractable ones for me). Oh, indeed I was not saying participate in discussions. I never do either. slashdot.org is filled with too much FUD (I check the pages just to see "other" developments and announcements, like The Gimp, etc.). > [ snip ] > We finished our own 1st generation packaging technology several years > back and are now simply struggling with having become stuck on our way > to implementing the 2nd. :( forgive my ignorance, but what are the problems with the current ports/packages system? I'm truly curious because as an end-user, I think the system works rather nicely. > In any case, it's forward rather than lateral movement that we need > right now and switching to someone else's 1st generation technology > would be an example of lateral (if not backward) movement. Absolutely. I was -NOT- advocating having FreeBSD move to anything that the linux community has come up with. I was merely posting a reference to something where some linux folks were arguing about whose distribution method was best, blah blah blah. That is one thing I think is cool about FreeBSD--EVERYTHING is "synced" to a release. You know that port XYZ is going to work when you type "make". No need to argue what format is best. That's the point I was trying to make reference too (for people that might be reading this list wondering the age-old question "Linux vs. FreeBSD"). Cheers, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds C-TEAM CLE - Central Design Services | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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