Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 19:39:05 -0500 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless) Message-ID: <a14716e8-d757-1bd2-a40f-0f4c6b6974fc@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <f0d014a7-8ffa-0d0b-d4fa-d15669d24919@bluerosetech.com> References: <CAGBxaXmwzXqZXSKX4-_qe15L3Xa8bVx%2BsFnFrxoksY8Ka3gS3w@mail.gmail.com> <7a9a2753-6460-a2bf-5156-5eab92a0b2f8@FreeBSD.org> <f0d014a7-8ffa-0d0b-d4fa-d15669d24919@bluerosetech.com>
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On 12/6/2017 6:36 PM, Mel Pilgrim wrote: > On 12/5/2017 2:09 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >> Le 05/12/2017 à 10:53, Aryeh Friedman a écrit : >>> TL;DR; >>> Flavors <bleep>'ed up ports and there are no good ways/alternates >>> for how >>> to use the ports collection for normal everyday users/maintainers >> >> >> Thank you for supporting all the hard work and countless hours that so >> many volunteers put in making the ports tree better. >> >> It really helps motivate all of us continue bringing the ports tree >> forward when we get emails with so much joy and positive attitude. > > FWIW, I've been chomping at the bit to try out flavours. > > As for those complaining about, it's a remarkably small number of very > loud people, but that's how it always is. > I can say that I do get a laugh out them say poudriere is too much > work, then insist on building everything from scratch or even bailing > FreeBSD for LFS or Gentoo... ;) I never said that "poudriere is too much work" Should users not be able to reproduce the current packages? It is trival on linux to do that, FreeBSD not so much. I would rather have a rock solid base as which to start from then what exists currently in FreeBSD. At least Linux works with most current hardware........
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