Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:08:56 +0200 From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports tree tagging again Message-ID: <20060820010855.GA42222@watt.intra.caraldi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060816123335.GA42090@underworld.novel.ru> References: <20060816123335.GA42090@underworld.novel.ru>
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* Roman Bogorodskiy:
> 2. Port tree is unstable
>
> IMO, port tree is not very stable. I mean: we're all human and
> more or less often make mistakes and inaccurate commits. So you
> cannot be sure that if you cvsup/portsnap your tree, it will not
> break something (e.g. because of some typo). It's OK to have
> such errors in general, and we can do nothing with it, but there
> are a lot of silly errors which could be avoided and you
> definitely don't deal with on a stable system.
However on a stable system you are probably not upgrading your
ports every day.
And even if you're upgrading the ports. I'm using FreeBSD for 5
years now, and I never encountered problems caused by inaccurate
commits, because most of the time those errors are fixed very
quickly.
Most errors I get from ports are caused by outdated dependency
conflicts, not by committers or maintainers mistake.
--
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
aka John Banana Qwerty
http://caraldi.com/jbq/
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