From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 13 21:35:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.67.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D10D37B419 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 21:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBE5WkW98285; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:32:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:32:46 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: Lev Serebryakov Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: autoconf 2.50 Message-ID: <20011214003246.A98250@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <19794459125.20011214005824@serebryakov.spb.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <19794459125.20011214005824@serebryakov.spb.ru>; from lev@serebryakov.spb.ru on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:58:24AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:58:24AM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: >Hello, ports! How are you? > > > System has two identical ports now -- autoconf213 and autoconf. WHY? Lev, I was in a hurry and I might have come off sounding abrasive when I didn't mean to. When I said, "don't say update the ports that use old autoconf or automake", what I should have said was: Unfortunately, updating the ports that fail is not an option. Since ports, by nature, are source that is not under our control, even in cases where it is possible to do, updating would mean a lot of gratuitous patches that the actual author of the ported software has no reason to take. Also, some packages, such as KDE, are so large, and have such complex build systems, that the amount of time and effort expended could not be justified. -- Alan Eldridge Just another $LANGUAGE hacker. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message