From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 09:43:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0E81065678 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:43:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442E114E65E; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E60A552.8090306@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:43:46 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20110901 Thunderbird/6.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michel Talon References: <20110902093914.GA92386@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20110902093914.GA92386@lpthe.jussieu.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:43:48 -0000 On 09/02/2011 02:39, Michel Talon wrote: > Your answer is very interesting and allows me to go further in the > reasoning. Indeed the UPDATING file is here to solve edge cases. My > point is that there shouldn't be any edge cases, if there are some it is > because something somewhere has been ill designed, which is not so > suprising since the system has been conceived by Jordan Hubbard when the > number and complexity of ports was much smaller. I certainly don't have > any precise idea of the things which should be changed so that edge > cases disappear, ... then how about you stop talking about it for a while? Many people who have been heavily involved with the ports system for a very long time have already agreed that there are a ton of thorny issues that need to be worked out in order for it to improve. IOW, we agree with you. Continuing to beat this drum has no positive value, and frankly is getting old. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/