From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 14:46:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1185C106566B for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:46:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31318FC13 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:46:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.4/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id p88EjihT037931 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:45:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 168 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835101FE76 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:46:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id 6A4604CAE; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:46:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:46:18 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110908144618.GA14556@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 4E68D53B.006 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 4E68D53B.006/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ Cc: Subject: Re: ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: 4E64C35A.50004@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:46:47 -0000 "Mikhail T." wrote: >Having to deal with RedHat's yum at work, I got to say, I'd rather be >building from source, than installing from "consistent packages", that >somebody else built *to their* tastes. Fedora crap is a very bad example. The canonical example of a binary distribution which *works* is Debian. You can always very easily compile a source Debian package to *your* taste, almost as easily as a FreeBSD port. You don't need to compile the hundreds of packages that sit on your hard disk, maybe you are interested in tweaking a couple of ports to your liking and you get the benefit of a much faster installation and upgrade of all the pristine packages. >No, I don't want FreeBSD to go in that direction >at all. Let RedHat cater to that market While i think that going in this direction will be very beneficial to FreeBSD and that ReHat doesn't come anywhere close to cater to this market (i work in a lab which is almost 100% RedHat since many years, and i am not happy at all with that. As much as Ubuntu is despised here, it is light years ahead of the Fedora always beta stuff). -- Michel TALON