From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 2 15:57:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from Genesis.Denninger.Net (209-176-244-82.inil.com [209.176.244.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100B914DD2 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 15:57:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karl@Genesis.Denninger.Net) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Genesis.Denninger.Net (8.9.3/8.8.2) id RAA26383; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 17:57:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <20000102175728.E26321@Denninger.Net> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 17:57:28 -0600 From: Karl Denninger To: Steve Price Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Karl on ports (was Re: ports/15822: ...) References: <20000102113646.A23255@Denninger.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Price on Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:34:44PM -0600 Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers cheerfully broiled for supper and served with ketchup! Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org HomeDaemon has been withdrawn from consideration by myself, and the repository necessary for it to be fetched as a port has been deleted. If you want to know why, ask the peckerheads over on -CURRENT. My support of your treehouse project, in total, is terminated. I have far better things to do with my time than condone and consent to illegal tampering with mail subscription lists. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: http://childrens-justice.org Isn't it time we started putting KIDS first? See the above URL for a plan to do exactly that! On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 01:34:44PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Karl Denninger wrote: > > [snip] > # I don't like the pkg/INSTALL. Hell, I don't like the PACKAGE format for > # this in the FIRST PLACE! Since you MUST have a compiler to run this anyway > # (Dan Lancini's code pretty much makes that mandatory) the entire concept of > # loading this from a package is rather silly. > [snip] > > There is nothing wrong with having a pkg/INSTALL. It serves a > very useful purpose if used properly. > > Karl, I've been real amenable to your rants up to this point. > You are [after all] entitled to your opinion. I happen to like > the Ports Collection and its package format, and I'm a little > put off by baseless remarks like this. Please do tell what it > is you don't like about it. Be prepared to back your remarks > with hard cold facts and code, otherwise you are just blowing > smoke up our collective arses for the sake of getting high. > > Do you have a big beef with FreeBSD (and their treehouses) and > because of that everything they do is wrong? Do you not > understand it and have the "it must be bad if I can't understand > it" attitude? Are you sold on another solution and anything not > exactly like it is inherently wrong? > > ??? > > -steve > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message