From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 16:40:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (ekgr-dsl3-t211.citlink.net [207.173.248.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179A837B419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:40:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.150]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 95A97EE547; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:41:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <002401c17225$199cafe0$962a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Christian Weisgerber" , "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: References: <9tedjp$31cl$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> Subject: Re: /usr/ports/shells/ksh93 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:40:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary W. Swearingen" To: "Christian Weisgerber" Cc: 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