From owner-freebsd-libh Thu Oct 26 20:29:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53C037B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9R3Th452557; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: kientzle@acm.org Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System In-Reply-To: Message from Tim Kientzle of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:46:05 PDT." <39F86DDD.98678B9D@acm.org> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:29:43 -0700 Message-ID: <52554.972617383@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On the other hand, saying that "you can do anything with a package > you can do with a port" is simple naivete. People have tried > it, it doesn't really work, let's move on. Erm, but that's the entire point - it's SUPPOSED to work and if it doesn't, that port can be considered broken because it doesn't build a correct package. Let's not just casually dismiss something which is actually a hard-and-fast part of the functional spec before "moving on" here either. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message