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Date:      Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:20:56 -0800
From:      "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
To:        The BSD Dreamer <beastie@tardisi.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        dougb@dougbarton.us
Subject:   Re: BIND REPLACE_BASE option
Message-ID:  <ad06188e706a2e471accdbe837cda506@ultimatedns.net>
In-Reply-To: <2A3ABE9AE68B3CE8E1B7C1A1@ogg.in.absolight.net>
References:  <D029D964D3A96A570922090C@ogg.in.absolight.net> <ee422bd630292fe6f7bc5439799667de@lhaven.homeip.net>, <2A3ABE9AE68B3CE8E1B7C1A1@ogg.in.absolight.net>

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On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:12:32 +0100 Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote

> I'm only going to answer that part, the rest of the thread being, I feel,
> mostly FUD.
Apologies for any contribution(s) I might have made in that area.
> 
> +--On 10 janvier 2015 21:25:11 -0600 The BSD Dreamer <beastie@tardisi.com>
> wrote:
> | Count the
> | PORTREVISIONs to bind before 9.9.4 and after.  Plus look at all the other
> | annoying changes in those PORTREVISIONs without that things have been
> | working fine for the rest of us before.
> 
> Yes, let's say there are two kinds of maintainers, those who keep the bugs
> they find in the port until there is a new release to an absolute minimum
> so that people are not scared of the number of changes, and there are
> those, like me, that would rather have a dozen updates between releases,
> each addressing a bug when it arises.
> 
> The BIND ports were in such a miserable way, with kludges everywhere, when
> I took over that it took me some time to get them right.
I saw that mess -- more than once. Thank you for taking that on!

--Chris
> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Arnold
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