From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 15 21:15:48 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 21:15:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from web2102.mail.yahoo.com (web2102.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0C7937B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8644 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Dec 2000 05:15:46 -0000 Message-ID: <20001216051546.8643.qmail@web2102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.165.7.138] by web2102.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:15:46 PST Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:15:46 -0800 (PST) From: lewst Subject: Re: where is KDE 2.0.1 ?!? To: Will Andrews Cc: lewst , KEVLO@FreeBSD.ORG, FREEBSD-PORTS@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews wrote: > Yes, and I'd like to further echo these sentiments by pointing out that > it took over 1,000 cpu hours and 150-200+ hours of my personal time to > maintain these ports over a 6-month period. Please don't scream at > Kevin for being about a week behind when he is not paid to do this > job... unless you would like to spend about 6-12 hours or so downloading > / compiling / testing / fixing PLISTs / testing again, etc yourself. To Will and the other flamers who sent me all the nastygrams: This kind of attitude is fine when you are supporting a hobby or pet project, but not a supposedly serious and competitive OS like FreeBSD. Critical pieces of the OS like KDE should be taken more seriously than the other ports. If not, then FreeBSD will continue to linger behind in Linus' shadow. RPMS for KDE 2.0.1 were available within hours of the release. This issue is bigger than one port, or even KDE, so don't get sidetracked. It's the attitude man. You're certainly not doing FreeBSD any favors with it. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message