Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:42:28 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@daemonnews.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [john@sixgirls.org: [dn-articles] FreeBSD problems: newsworthy?] Message-ID: <20010120234228.A41947@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010120133038.C7492@klapaucius.zer0.org>; from gsutter@daemonnews.org on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:30:38PM -0800 References: <20010120133038.C7492@klapaucius.zer0.org>
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On Sat 2001-01-20 (13:30), Gregory Sutter wrote: > This person seems to be having some trouble with the state of his > ports. I don't think that the Daemon News article submission address > is the right place to ask, so I'll forward it here. Can anyone help him? I've expressed before, and will express again, my incredible dislike of this port.mkversion "you have to upgrade or you can't use ports" thing from a user level. Especially since we break it, and don't retain support even for the last release. I previously offered to maintain support for the old version of the stuff, provide patches, and so forth, but Satoshi said he didn't want them in or something. I don't believe it's incredibly hard to provide this compatibility for at least the latest release, or maybe even a few releases. It will also irritate users less - I get complaints about it from my converts a lot. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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