Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:04:00 +0100 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duration of the ports freeze Message-ID: <20071201180400.GA56783@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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David Southwell wrote: > > In those very rare cases where a user just cannot wait 2-3 weeks extra > > for > > an upgrade, they can always try to build the software themselves > > outside > > the ports system. > > I regard this view as developer centric rather than user centric. As I > have said elsewhere the ports system is freebsd msp and users are not > naturally comnfortable with building outside the ports system. If they > were we would not need the system!!! I beg to offer a radically different opinion. I don't want to compile the ports, i want the packages, that i will install with pkg_add -r, and i want them immediately with the new FreeBSD-7, not 3 months later. Having them 3 months later would be extremely user unfriendly, to the point that i would delay using FreeBSD-7 by 3 months, at least. -- Michel TALON
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