Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:04:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: pfg1+@pitt.edu (Pedro F. Giffuni) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concern over ftp.freebsd.org Message-ID: <200105041704.KAA14636@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3AF2D595.E5FA8FF3@pitt.edu> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at May 04, 2001 12:15:17 PM
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> > Most people do not subscribe to chat. The most applicable > > mailing list is probably the one with the largest subscribership... > > I disagree ... what about those of us that are simply not interested > in this stuff. It's so bothersome to just start deleting email...at > least spam can be filtered. I'm not interested in anything at all regarding IDE; can you filter that from -hackers, too? Isn't hackers for talking about _technology_? IDE hardly qualifies... > > > > As someone who uses FreeBSD in a business context, and has off > > > > and on since 1993, it is alarming to go out and try to grab a > > > > distribution, only to find out that it's not where you expected > > > > it to be. > > > > > > Surely it's on the mirrors, yes? > > > > No, it's not. > > > Is CVS broken ?? No, the Makefiles in FreeBSD are broken. Since it's available from CVS, but not FTP, the Makefiles shouldn't use FTP, by your reasoning, right? In point of fact, the 35 ports necessary fro building a release are _NOT_ in FreeBSD's CVS. > People shouldn't complain so much for something that is provided for > free... remember..the BSD license doesn't include "the right to ftp > the software from my nearest repository". It was particularly > ridiculous to see this Jesus Monroy "demanding" heads to roll. No way, > please keep the clown in -chat. I didn't see him use that phrase. While I agree he failed to express himself well, the point that FreeBSD as a project is apparently fragile is well taken. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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