Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 07:51:15 -0500 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: THANK YOU for flavors! Message-ID: <98c8597a-1db1-b1f6-2aa3-4f09b9a52c59@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1afffe5a-8882-6cd8-5c09-b0c93e28bec5@gmail.com> References: <fe339d99-2516-d17d-fa94-b6ff48f57114@bluerosetech.com> <1afffe5a-8882-6cd8-5c09-b0c93e28bec5@gmail.com>
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On 12/07/17 04:30, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Op 07/12/2017 om 00:51 schreef Mel Pilgrim: >> In the midst of all the negative noise, I thought I'd post and say >> thank you for bring in this feature. I've been chomping at the bit to >> try flavours out since I heard about them. I started flavouring my >> company's internal Ports Tree extension the evening after it landed. >> >> Flavours are going to reduce 18 server role metaports to 3. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Do you have a web page where flavours are explained nicely for non > technical FreeBSD users so that they can also see the benefits of > flavour. I think it is a little odd that a big change like this is not > mentioned in any way on the front page of FreeBSD. > I really believe things are better this way albeit i did not read and > understand it in a whole. I also believe flavours are nice in a multi > server envirement and on the desktop. > The negative noice comes from people who USE FreeBSD on a single machine > or maybe 2 and are now confronted with there old habbits not working > anymore. > Give those people a walkthrough how they can run poudriere. Best without > out a server but just a oneliner they need to remeber for future > updates. They do not want to spend too much time reading and trying to > update there system. > If FreeBSD has done that i think that was lot less negative noice on the > channels. > > Secondly I want to thank you all for the great product FreeBSD is and it > is a great product thanks to all the time people infest into FreeBSD. > So thank you all. But i also hope FreeBSD learns from these big changes. > If FreeBSD want a larger userbase, single machine users are there. And > they do not want to spend an hour reading through a poudriere man page. > They just want to type pgk upgrade, portmaster -d -a, or maybe poudriere > update ports for all that matters. > users also don't want to wake up to the fact that what worked a few days ago not is working ie fetch/update port repo run synth and then get a " What the fuck has just happened now" only to be put down by the so called folks in charge here for even asking.
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