Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:40:20 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /usr/ports/shells/ksh93 Message-ID: <002401c17225$199cafe0$962a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <OF0F962A46.788A317C-ON87256B0A.00529431@smed.com><9tedjp$31cl$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <qtr8qtxaat.8qt@localhost.localdomain>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> To: "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:00 PM Subject: Re: /usr/ports/shells/ksh93 > naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes: > > > Maybe the maintainer knows? But hey, why ask the one guy most > > likely to know when you can instead address hundreds or thousands > > of people who probably don't? > > Interesting. And suprising to me, but I guess it makes some sense and > the ports section Handbook (4.3.2) does say to contact the maintainer > first, then write a PR. > > Where do you think -questions and -ports should be mentioned in the > Handbook's list of ways to deal with seemingly broken ports, if > anywhere? (They're not in there now.) > > I think many people have an instinctive hesitation to bother a > maintainer or developer about things and interrupt their important work > and would rather bother other "users". We forget that many (most?) read > these lists too. Should the Handbook (and man pages?) give people > warmer feelings about dealing directly with people, than with "the > system"? But wasn't "the system" created to insulate you from direct > initial contact with users? FWIW, I attempted to use this port a while ago and gave up as I could not get things to work. The question and resulting answer have given me additional information with which to try again. If it had not appeared on this list, I'd still be in the dark. Thanks! Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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