Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:06:14 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future for FBSD on alpha Message-ID: <20080801110614.GA17503@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <c5a0176c6533491b7d9dcfbd1c5ca0ed.squirrel@webmail.calibre-solutions.co.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0808010200470.31933-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de> <c5a0176c6533491b7d9dcfbd1c5ca0ed.squirrel@webmail.calibre-solutions.co.uk>
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:34:25AM -0000, Angus MacGyver wrote: > > On Fri, August 1, 2008 00:06, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: > > > > Having us testing will help the port maintainers a lot. > > > Whilst I would support testing - I personally have fairly limited time to > build and test now - and quite a lot of sysadmins I know are in the same > boat. > > If there are enough people to do this - then it might just work. > > The we must do - if this is going to go ahead, - is to make reasonable > decisions about what ports are the "most wanted" - say apache22 and mysql > for example - and not "care" about something like "joe" (I just use these > as examples - after all one can use a different editor - but a different > webserver or DB is another matter) this sounds like a good idea - a list of most wanted ports. However, even 1 or 2 big ports might require lots of dependencies. For example I've 229 ports at present, of which only 20 or so are top level, like ImageMagick, xpdf, teTeX, some X clients. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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