From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 31 09:03:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27386 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:03:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA27313; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:02:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA06338 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 31 Mar 1997 19:31:43 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 31 Mar 97 19:31:43 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA00797; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:28:45 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:28:43 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mark Murray , John Fieber , Kevin Eliuk , FreeBSD-Ports , peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error installing pine-3.96 In-Reply-To: <11502.859825093@time.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Example - SSH. SSH is one of those things that folk always want the > > latest version of. We moved libz and libgmp into mainstream code, > > but our versions in the RELENG_* branch are not those that the port > > wanted. Making this work was _very_ dirty. Around these parts, most > > folk just gave up, said "sod the ports system" and rolled their own. > > Cock-ups abounded. > > I'm aware of those specific examples, though I also think that our > propensity for bringing things like this into FreeBSD has waned in > recent months and I don't expect it to be such a big problem. Why not > shoot for overall compatibility and cross the occasional ports->src > migration problem (and I hope very occasional or even I will start > yelling "Bloat! Bloat!" along with the bloatist camp) when we come to > it? We need to split ports team in two parts: one do -current compatibility (f.e. myself) and other one 2.2 compatibility. Of course the same person can be included into two groups at once. Droping -current compatibility from ports is very bad idea and I strongy object because many -current features, incompatibilities, bugs revealed from running -current ports... -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/