From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 16:57:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBFA637B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:57:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDAC343FD7 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 16:57:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18qNE3-000DFT-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 00:57:39 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 981E2C7D0 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:57:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id AD560610C for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:57:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 5B13C2256C; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:57:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:57:28 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: a simple question about ports Message-ID: <20030305005728.GA2118@willow.raggedclown.intra> References: <20030302181055.GA47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> <15970.20433.657226.491238@guru.mired.org> <20030302184719.GC47148@willow.raggedclown.intra> <15970.24231.528901.125737@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15970.24231.528901.125737@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:42:31PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20030302184719.GC47148@willow.raggedclown.intra>, Cliff Sarginson typed: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > In <20030302181055.GA47148@willow.raggedclown.intra>, Cliff Sarginson typed: > > > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > > Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they > > > compiled fine on the committers box. > > And aye there's the rub. > > I've found that most maintainers are willing to try and fix ports that > don't compile in your environment. You can't expect a bug to be fixed > unless you report it to someone who can fix it. > Let us straighten a few things out here, the perpetuation of this kind of nonsense puts us back in the dark Lord of Redmond world. A language is a language. Ok GCC has groovy extras to allow FreeBSD and Linux to compile. I expect that "Hello. world" will compile link and run .. yes ? Does it matter very much what CPU I have, how much memory etc..? Linking, Now we have another story. It is quite educational to find thet KDE has a dependency on a game program ;) Yup it sure does. I know people put in precious spare time to just about the best OS on the planet. But "portupgrade" just does not hack it. Ok. End of story. Otherwise I will get banned again by the inner corpus. Let us make it better. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message