From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 13 16:53:50 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7E537B718; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:53:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2E0qK086751; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:52:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:50:58 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c Message-ID: <20010313165058.A86712@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20010313162107.C86088@dragon.nuxi.com> <200103140036.f2E0a8v15357@vic.sabbo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103140036.f2E0a8v15357@vic.sabbo.net>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:36:07AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:36:07AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > It's better because: > 1. People don't trust pre-compiled packages and like compiling by > themselves. I already discrited the "macho" reason. > This also allows to use fancy optimisations like -O100 and > -fvery-cool-but-expensive-optimisation. Perhaps you missed the "Unless one is setting tweakable knobs" in my original reply. > 2. In the case when small FreeBSD-specific bug found and fixed you will > not have to re-download the whole thing. I don't follow you. For the most part, the only thing a port gets from FreeBSD is shared libs. If you fixed a bug in the port itself, then yes, you need the distfile. > 3. It's usually a certain time lag between port update and package > appearance at ftp*.freebsd.org. Valid point > 4. You can compile packages for the several different releases, say > -current for your notebook, -stable for a production machine 3-stable > for your grandma etc. This does not hold with your example. So don't bring up such cases. Nor are any of these cases ones Paul is mentioning.... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message