From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 22 18:19:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CD5B904; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ran.psg.com (ran.psg.com [IPv6:2001:418:8006::18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25EC18FB; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ryuu.psg.com.psg.com) by ran.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WRQVu-0004hB-PF; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:19:23 +0000 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 03:19:21 +0900 Message-ID: From: Randy Bush To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: reason 23 why we've moved to linux In-Reply-To: <532DD2EB.1080204@freebsd.org> References: <53287821.4040209@freebsd.org> <5328A03A.3000305@freebsd.org> <532DD2EB.1080204@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/22.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:19:24 -0000 > What about using pkg(1) and what version of FreeBSD are you on? what about standing on my left foot and chewing gum? you're down in the kinky world where the customer has to spend serious time and energy to get around brokenness in your product. this is a well-known recipe for losing customers. > Finally, are you using portupgrade? and pkg. it all sucks. and it sucks the customer's time. randy