From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 9 14:50:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDBE106567A for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 14:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adams-freebsd@ateamsystems.com) Received: from fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com (fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com [69.55.229.149]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBEB8FC21 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 14:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.15.220] (unknown [118.175.84.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fss.sandiego.ateamservers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCAF1B9F22; Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:50:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FD3629B.9060106@ateamsystems.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:50:03 +0700 From: Adam Strohl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: H References: <20120604110339.GA9426@equilibrium.bsdes.net> <4FD2D4CC.3080109@ateamsystems.com> <4FD35F67.4020007@hm.net.br> In-Reply-To: <4FD35F67.4020007@hm.net.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steve Franks , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:50:16 -0000 On 6/9/2012 21:36, H wrote: > why is there an update, would be a little bit better My point was why do you need the update, and can't wait until its been better vetted. The porters do the best they can but can't test everything. > but a real good question would be, why is there a not working/compiling > update released to the ports tree Because it was just released and every combination of system configuration hasn't been tested, so there is some lag time before it stabilizes, especially with complicated software. There in lies the question -- why do you need to compile a port which was just released? Is it a security thing or is it "I want the latest" ? I'm just curious (and totally uninterested in how this ranks in your "worse question" list). -- Adam Strohl http://www.ateamsystems.com/