From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 3 16:38:27 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 1E4311065688; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 16:38:27 +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 F2F088FC12; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 16:38:26 +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 1224BB9F22; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 12:38:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FCB92FD.9040202@ateamsystems.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:38:21 +0700 From: Adam Strohl Organization: A-Team Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erich References: <2421561.4aJcXPZZxh@x220.ovitrap.com> <4FCB38F2.4030505@ateamsystems.com> <1375234.KFMPb0Apoz@x220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <1375234.KFMPb0Apoz@x220.ovitrap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "O. Hartmann" , "freebs >> Current FreeBSD" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:38:27 -0000 On 6/3/2012 19:24, Erich wrote: > yes, you miss a very simple thing. Updated this morning your ports tree. Your client asks for something for Monday morning for which you need now a program which needs some kind of PNG but you did not install it. > > Do you have a machine that is fast enough to upgrade all your ports and still finish what your client needs Monday morning? All I'd need to do is compile and install the libpng and then compile the program. There is no need to "upgrade all my ports". > > The ports tree is not broken as such. Only the installation gets broken in some sense. Have a version number there would allow people to go back to the last known working ports tree, install the software - or whatever has to be done - with a working system. > > Of course, the next step will be an upgrade. But only after the work which brings in the money is done. I don't understand what you are saying here, sorry. Or why you'd upgrade all your ports to install 1 new one. > > You do not face this problem on Windows. You can run a 10 year old 'kernel' and still install modern software. Not true at all. Lots of Windows software requires minimum service pack and KB patch levels. > > Erich