From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 20 9:11:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB5937B5B2 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@tutopia.com) Received: from tutopia.com ([216.226.229.145]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA227; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:10:25 -0400 Message-ID: <38FF2C3D.1CBB568D@tutopia.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:11:41 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Harding Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs References: <38FE7F1D.59E9B386@tutopia.com> <38FEC0D7.87D0212@outpost.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Craig Harding wrote: > > "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > > > FWIW, I am sort of happy that distfiles don't fit anymore, sooner or > > later a "ports sources CD set" will be good. > > Not that I'm under the delusion that a poll is currently been taken, but > if one was, I'd be a vote for ports distfiles in the standard > distribution, rather than packages. I never use packages at all, but the > ports are a daily lifesaver. > The distfiles get outdated very soon...well at least for me...I only use the ports system when I need to update one of the ports I maintain. FWIW, extracting the complete ports tree to update one or two ports is a PITA. Of course, it is impossible to keep everyone happy. cheers, Pedro. > -- C. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message