From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 8 19:32: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (nectar-gw.nectar.com [204.0.249.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3448215A6F for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by cerebus.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA18035; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:30:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from spawn.nectar.com(10.0.0.101) by cerebus.nectar.com via smap (V2.1) id xma018027; Thu, 8 Apr 99 21:29:35 -0500 Received: from spawn.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spawn.nectar.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA78206; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:28:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Message-Id: <199904090228.VAA78206@spawn.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: References: Subject: Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD Ports Team Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 21:28:29 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 8 April 1999 at 21:54, Chuck Robey wrote: [snip] > You would have the same kind of problems with most stuff that uses imake > to build. No, honestly, that's not a fix. oh well. [snip] > > Do > > you really think that if one removes, say, ports/audio/replay, that no > > one will miss it? > > Not one user will complain if he loses neat-widget42, as long as there > is a neat-widget. No one except a very small number of developers (who > know perfectly well how to do this for themselves) wants or needs > multiple concurrent versions on their machines, especially at the > horrendous cost to everyone else. I don't mean the library ports themselves... I mean the ports that depend upon old versions of the libraries. e.g. ports/audio/replay currently depends upon gtk11-devel. I'm sure some of these may be fixable by the maintainer, but of the 34 that depend on old GTK libs, I guarantee that some cannot be rewritten to use a new version of GTK trivially. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message