Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:11:18 -0700 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrtools doesn't build on -current Message-ID: <20021018211118.GK19874@procyon.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CAD8@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com> References: <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CAD8@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com>
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:57:33PM -0400, Long, Scott wrote: > Changes due to standards compliance, architecture changes, etc, all > wreak havoc on ports, and hopefully the pace of that will slow down. > Unfortunately, the direction of FreeBSD is what it is, and the onus is > on the ports maintainers to keep their ports up to date and working. Uh, no, I disagree. The onus is on the people who break things to fix them, or at the very least *attempt* to provide methods to fix things. People who maintain ports are less likely to know the appropriate way to fix something than the people who broke it in the first place. Standards compliance, architectural changes, etc. are all not things usually considered in the realm of ports. Probably because ports uses third party software which may also work on other OS's. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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