Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:45:22 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PORTVERSION=6.1 wrong in linux_base-62 ??? Message-ID: <20011116184522.A528@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <200111161203.fAGC3FI05149@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20011115211037.B721@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200111161203.fAGC3FI05149@gits.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > > > We don't need ports for that. People have all the freedom to > > remove and install packages to tweak the environment for their > > needs. The port is kept clean especially for that reason. > > are you saying me that if I want staroffice-6, I have to get rid > of linux_base-6, to install linux_base-7 and to tweak it myself > to make linux_netscape working fine ? are you serious... staroffice-6 works with linux_base-6, so there's no tweaking involved. In cases where people really need linux_base-7 for one application and really need linux_base-7 for another, they need to tweak. This will be the same tweakage a Linux user needs to do to get it to work. If the tweakage is caused by us not having updated all our ports, it's just a matter of patience. Rome wasn't built in a day... > I a wonderfull world, I only have to install linux_base-7 to > make staroffice-6 happy, and linux_compat-7 to make linux_netscape > happy. no more, no less. so, a compat port would greatly simplify > things and linux_base-6 wouldn't be needed any more. In a wonderful world, backward compatibility problems would not exist or would have been solved so that it works OOTB for us... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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