Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 22:50:08 +0900 From: MITA Yoshio <mita@FreeBSD.org> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: kris@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 7000 ports! Message-ID: <7w8z68xrov.wl@ma2.justnet.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20020525151649.68ec5d69.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <200205251133.g4PBXta47948@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020525052645.A50918@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020525151649.68ec5d69.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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Guten Abend, > Isn't quality more important than quantity? Of course quality is one of the first concerns in porting. We must continue the effort to make ports in better quality. I personally feel that principle of FreeBSD ports can be seen in `GENERIC' kernel. GENERIC contains as many configurations as possible that are not necessarily needed for all the persons; users build their own reshaped kernels afterwards (maybe this example does not reflect perfectly the fact, but at least my feeling `install many choice at first and a user selects afterwards' should be not so far from the truth.). To reduce the number of ports to watch personally, I am very fine with my meta-port. In my meta-port, I put all ports needed in *_DEPENDS line. So usually I only use a very limited subset of GENERIC port system. Also, I am very happy to encounter many nice programs in grace of the ports. Cordially, ----- Yoshio MITA, Ph.D. P.S. Congratulations for 7000 ports! > All To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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