From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 11:19:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558BF1065672; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:19:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FECBB2C64; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F17FC19.3040408@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:18:49 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vermaden References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dinoex@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD ports list Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:19:02 -0000 On 01/18/2012 23:07, vermaden wrote: > Lets talk about Ports maintainers for a while, ftp/vsftpd maintainer > for example, one of the options of this port is to provide a RC script > so one will be able to start this FTP server with /usr/local/etc/rc.d > script, but ... ITS NOT ENABLED BY DEFAULT, wtf people? I don't see any reason why it should be an option at all, never mind off by default. Perhaps the maintainer can elaborate on his reasoning? Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/