From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 1: 9:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9738C37B401; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 01:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D844443E75; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 01:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0079.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.79] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Rq3Z-0003fC-00; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 04:09:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2A99F6.D4B1999E@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 01:08:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Artem Tepponen Cc: rsi@panix.com, Doug Barton , Garrett Wollman , mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <5235EF9BAE6B7F4CB3735789EEF73B296E614A@turtle.egar.egartech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Artem Tepponen wrote: > Unfortunately this doesn't solve third party packages problem well. > Note: ports do have freebsd maintainers but packages may not (well, > there should be possibility for standalone thirdparty packages). It doesn't solve the third party binary only kernel components problem, either. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message