From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 18 14:12:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCD637B404; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from procyon.firepipe.net (procyon.firepipe.net [198.78.66.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A1E43E97; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:12:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by procyon.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6B1F123FD2; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:11:18 -0700 From: Will Andrews To: "Long, Scott" Cc: current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrtools doesn't build on -current Message-ID: <20021018211118.GK19874@procyon.firepipe.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Long, Scott" , current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org References: <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CAD8@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CAD8@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:57:33PM -0400, Long, Scott wrote: > Changes due to standards compliance, architecture changes, etc, all > wreak havoc on ports, and hopefully the pace of that will slow down. > Unfortunately, the direction of FreeBSD is what it is, and the onus is > on the ports maintainers to keep their ports up to date and working. Uh, no, I disagree. The onus is on the people who break things to fix them, or at the very least *attempt* to provide methods to fix things. People who maintain ports are less likely to know the appropriate way to fix something than the people who broke it in the first place. Standards compliance, architectural changes, etc. are all not things usually considered in the realm of ports. Probably because ports uses third party software which may also work on other OS's. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message