From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jan 20 13:43: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9889437B402 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:42:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 42375 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Jan 2001 21:42:28 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:42:28 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Gregory Sutter Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [john@sixgirls.org: [dn-articles] FreeBSD problems: newsworthy?] Message-ID: <20010120234228.A41947@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <20010120133038.C7492@klapaucius.zer0.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010120133038.C7492@klapaucius.zer0.org>; from gsutter@daemonnews.org on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:30:38PM -0800 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 2001-01-20 (13:30), Gregory Sutter wrote: > This person seems to be having some trouble with the state of his > ports. I don't think that the Daemon News article submission address > is the right place to ask, so I'll forward it here. Can anyone help him? I've expressed before, and will express again, my incredible dislike of this port.mkversion "you have to upgrade or you can't use ports" thing from a user level. Especially since we break it, and don't retain support even for the last release. I previously offered to maintain support for the old version of the stuff, provide patches, and so forth, but Satoshi said he didn't want them in or something. I don't believe it's incredibly hard to provide this compatibility for at least the latest release, or maybe even a few releases. It will also irritate users less - I get complaints about it from my converts a lot. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message