From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 2 11:34:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DFD14EB3 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:34:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA03118; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 13:34:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 13:34:44 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Karl Denninger Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Karl on ports (was Re: ports/15822: ...) In-Reply-To: <20000102113646.A23255@Denninger.Net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Karl Denninger wrote: [snip] # I don't like the pkg/INSTALL. Hell, I don't like the PACKAGE format for # this in the FIRST PLACE! Since you MUST have a compiler to run this anyway # (Dan Lancini's code pretty much makes that mandatory) the entire concept of # loading this from a package is rather silly. [snip] There is nothing wrong with having a pkg/INSTALL. It serves a very useful purpose if used properly. Karl, I've been real amenable to your rants up to this point. You are [after all] entitled to your opinion. I happen to like the Ports Collection and its package format, and I'm a little put off by baseless remarks like this. Please do tell what it is you don't like about it. Be prepared to back your remarks with hard cold facts and code, otherwise you are just blowing smoke up our collective arses for the sake of getting high. Do you have a big beef with FreeBSD (and their treehouses) and because of that everything they do is wrong? Do you not understand it and have the "it must be bad if I can't understand it" attitude? Are you sold on another solution and anything not exactly like it is inherently wrong? ??? -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message