From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 24 11:44:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11566302 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:44:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22e.google.com (mail-ie0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22e]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3201FFB for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f174.google.com with SMTP id 10so1884045ied.19 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:44:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=DkYxrvnn9xkZxxA/o+BA/OfI1p7W4CObJPfkBHs65LU=; b=JMPTAGb9BQZoPbtmAdK6q/LOdWGx7vy2eiHdaYYdLHphY56Q5kqAIXMO30fSHa9WMn hRF76f7pSh4jVT2MPNdg1pTN+JPsex2hWCVNv9ZE9PNV1pdjR3AaTvyAtgecXGxlZks+ 6E1p+Od7hg69l5ZANWAHbpNa5ikHdIf5F6v2PmuzPeEXm3lKr4fm1y34dy8XfQHMRlTy es+Qa+LeSn6e7AR6z4GCGgFw4b0eESXYIWDqPuqkHwCbcy5WgQ+auaTPAyjno9zKw7mh LRmWs+e2ke+fVMdA6dSRKQbebJ/8r7SWC55OVnFq1l8Hry9O4Tt9t/o6JRus7jaMX4id DvnQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.43.47.5 with SMTP id uq5mr18340408icb.0.1366803895606; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.58.52 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.58.52 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:44:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <60A4F968-60A4-4C71-AD53-BA1BC6CBAB5F@longcount.org> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:44:55 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends From: Chris Rees To: Justin Edward Muniz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:44:56 -0000 On 24 Apr 2013 05:36, "Justin Edward Muniz" wrote: > > > > > Justin I say stick to FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng becomes > > more popular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary packages > > become more popular . Kports is a monster program , you should set a > > reasonable goal ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup project > > . Also a update notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would be > > very useful . > > > > My 2cents . > > --- > > Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org > > > > > Thank you very much Mark, > > I was definitely hoping to get community feedback on this, and I value > you voicing your opinion. I agree that kports is a mammoth, and also that a > system updater GUI should have a way to notify the user of new updates. > > Any other perspectives are welcome, as well as support for a > freebsd-update approach. I am working to refine my proposal, which as > you've pointed out is very important. Eventually I would like to help in > all three mentioned areas, but for now I must focus on one application. > Does anyone think that a custom kernel configuration and management GUI > utility would be desirable? > > I will shape my goals to meet the needs of the community. Our kernel is actually very easy to configure, so I'm not convinced that it's needed; you may be thinking of Linux's menuconfig, but I think that is because of the complexity. Chris