Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 16:13:43 -0400 From: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> To: David Cross <dcrosstech@gmail.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM) Message-ID: <062dbaaa-c0cc-49c1-967d-c7f4429f5f76@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <159D15FA-6235-484C-A54A-565E3CDEA690@gmail.com> References: <202409031532.483FW0If007252@critter.freebsd.dk> <159D15FA-6235-484C-A54A-565E3CDEA690@gmail.com>
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On 9/3/24 15:36, David Cross wrote: > >> On Sep 3, 2024, at 11:32 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> >> What is FreeBSD ? >> ----------------- >> >> Forget Rust for the moment, I promise I will come back to it. >> ... >> ... >> ... >> Poul-Henning >> >> PS: I overdosed on release work 25+ years ago, and have not been >> paying them much attention since, but if this is what the pkgbase >> crew has been pushing for more than a decade, we all owe them an >> apology. > As a quick note I constantly build freebsd from source. I do it for all of my systems for all updates, all patch releases. > > I may be an outlier here, but my impression from email, forum posts, and redit threads suggests it is at least somewhat common. > > There are ways to marry both worlds (like poudriere, which I also use to manage my empire), but I’d like to not completely discount the usecase; at the very least the ease of buildworld is important for the releasee engineering process > itself. Same here. Not as much anymore as I used to, but it is still my preferred way (a build) to install updates.
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