From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 22 04:28:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754C1106566C; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:28:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bland@bbnest.net) Received: from mail1.asahi-net.or.jp (mail1.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0FA8FC15; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:28:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bland@bbnest.net) Received: from hub.bbnest.net (w133033.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [121.1.133.33]) by mail1.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420736749F; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:11:19 +0900 (JST) Received: from hub.bbnest.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.bbnest.net (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3M4BCfw035081 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:11:12 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from bland@bbnest.net) Received: (from www@localhost) by hub.bbnest.net (8.14.3/8.14.2/Submit) id n3M4BBna035079; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:11:11 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from bland@bbnest.net) X-Authentication-Warning: hub.bbnest.net: www set sender to bland@bbnest.net using -f To: Dmitry Morozovsky MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:11:11 +0900 From: Alexander Nedotsukov In-Reply-To: References: <1239343955.4933.113.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1239669463.1304.67.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1239670126.1304.75.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3f1fd1ea0904131951u5e6b211dlbb55af484d91e63b@mail.gmail.com> <1239717249.1407.9.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <1239730007.1304.237.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1239736472.1304.251.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1239737820.1304.265.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1240188770.1356.26.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: bland@bbnest.net User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2a Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-DSPAM-Result: Whitelisted X-DSPAM-Processed: Wed Apr 22 13:11:19 2009 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9983 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 49ee98e7350829404693998 Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke , re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.26 available for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:28:53 -0000 On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:19:30 +0400 (MSD), Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > JMC> Actually, I have always shied away from such things. We regularly get > JMC> requests to change the meta-port, but we long ago took the philosophy to > JMC> keep the Desktop meta-port as close to the official set of GNOME Desktop > JMC> components as possible. If we add an option for this, then we slide > JMC> down the slope of making everything optional. > JMC> > JMC> In the past I've simply prompted people to create their own local > JMC> meta-ports, or install x11/gnome2-lite (no user-share there), then build > JMC> on that for what they need. > > Well, then I suppose we should at least say something about this in release > notes, because in 7.2 one of *major* desktop application sets conflicts with > one of the *widest* server component. What do you propose to write in the release notes which could help Apache 1.3+ lovers? And may I in turn quote a bit of another release notes: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement1.3.html "We strongly recommend that users of all earlier versions, including 1.3 family release, upgrade to to the current 2.2 version as soon as possible." :-^)