From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 16:30:20 2007 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 2FA2A16A469 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:30:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao103.cox.net (eastrmmtao103.cox.net [68.230.240.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9877A13C4A5 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao103.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20071112162920.YMCW11060.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:29:20 -0500 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id BsUR1Y0034iy4EG0000000; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:28:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:33:55 -0600 To: "Doug Barton" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20071111155343.GC1567@ted.stsp.lan> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.24 (Linux) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Stefan Sperling Subject: Re: [PATCH] portmaster with SU_CMD 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: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:30:20 -0000 On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:59:50 -0600, Doug Barton wrote: > This is very interesting stuff, but I don't see how it would be useful > to a very wide audience. My feeling is that the vast majority of our > users build and/or install ports as root, and I don't see any good > reason for that not to be the default practice. > > I'll review your patch more thoroughly when time allows (since we are in > a freeze I can't add new features right now anyway) but I'm not inclined > to add this unless there is a fairly substantial clamor for it. > > In fact I think I've passed a tipping point for portmaster where the > complexity of the code, and the number of options (and thus, optional > code paths) make adding new stuff very hard to do without introducing > more bugs, and because there are so many different combinations of > options it's hard to regression test improvements to existing features, > never mind new ones. > > I'm not saying I'll never add a new feature, just that there needs to be > a really good reason to do so. I agree, because you can't build any ports in /usr/ports as in normal user anyway. I don't see any good reason to do it either. Cheers, Mezz > Doug -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org