Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:33:13 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: The BSD Dreamer <beastie@tardisi.com>, dougb@dougbarton.us, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND REPLACE_BASE option 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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Mathieu Arnold wrote: > I'm only going to answer that part, the rest of the thread being, I feel, > mostly FUD. > ... > 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 wish people wouldn't make statements like this. The thread has been informative in many ways and clearly not FUD. I also wish people would not insult previous base and port maintainers by labelling their work buggy or kludgy. All code has bugs. Even having a REPLACE_BASE that only prints "REPLACE_BASE is no longer supported" can be considered a bug. Having two identically named binaries on a system that differ only by path and version can also be considered a kludge (not to mention a security issue). While I'm not personally impacted by the bind port's deprecation of REPLACE_BASE clearly others are. As Doug pointed out this option has been around for well over a decade and like other ports with a REPLACE_BASE option has saved FreeBSD admins a lot of work in cross-platform environments. One question while we're on the topic of deprecations, has 'make pkg || make package' been deprecated in favor of poudriere? Roger
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