Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 06:40:11 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Message-ID: <00021020495702.00825@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200002110218.SAA06556@mina.sr.hp.com> References: <200002110218.SAA06556@mina.sr.hp.com>
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Unless you or someone else are willing to write a nice, user- > friendly program, I don't think much is going to come of this. I think > most developers believe/understand that FreeBSD is lacking in many areas > of user-friendliness, and complaining about it (no matter how correct > you are) often does not lead to a successful outcome. The problem is far more political than that. The only acceptable contributions must be of the "complete working code" form. The directors of this project are unwilling to allow outsiders to specify a plan and implement it incrementally. > You only need the CVS tree to be on one local system (if you don't > want to use the public ones). The only "local" system is the one in my lap :-) I'm "connected" much of the time, but not continuously. > It's not all that large, either. > Total size is around 1GB, which isn't all that big nowadays. That's more space than I had 10 years ago. And 25% of the space on this laptop. By the time I checkout and compile, :-( Not to mention the fact that I dual boot to keep a working system. I'd say that 1GB is still too large to carry around. Now, if I had most of it only on a handy CD ... -- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@Dataplex.NET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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