From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 22:35:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6177F37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:35:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19EB43EDC for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:35:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <20021231063509051003t5ble>; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 06:35:09 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBV6Z7GZ030516 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:35:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBV6Z6Xq030510; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:35:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: do we have to wait for PHP 4.3 port? References: <20021230194818.A18495@mail.hitmedia.com> <3E11152B.2050401@mac.com> <003d01c2b081$b5bedf10$3224200a@me3> <441y3y4ybi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <002b01c2b08d$7eac8cf0$3224200a@me3> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 31 Dec 2002 01:35:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <002b01c2b08d$7eac8cf0$3224200a@me3> Message-ID: <44fzsewvad.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian" writes: > Because ports are really config files to obtain and install other peoples > software. Ports that would be deemed critical to system operation, like > perl, I could see freezing those. But all ports? The number of ports that are mission-critical to *somebody* numbers in the hundreds, perhaps thousands. You were asking about PHP; to risk shipping an official FreeBSD release without a full release process on the PHP port would be negligent. > BTW I'd love to see > sendmail and named removed from the installs and moved to ports/packages > only. Lots of people say that, but no one's done the work yet. It's a *huge* amount of work, if you think about it: being able to deliver daily reports is a critical function, and while most systems don't need named, other essential resolver tools can't be easily separated from the rest of BIND. But this has all been covered before, at great length; if you're interested in taking the task on, see the mailing list archives. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message