From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 19 19:32:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7441065671; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3538FC16; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 423841CC06A; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:32:43 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Marko Lerota Message-ID: <20080319193243.GA30784@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <867igo3cih.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <47C749CF.4010501@FreeBSD.org> <86eja7et3j.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <47E0249C.8030700@FreeBSD.org> <868x0ezh9u.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <868x0ezh9u.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:32:43 -0000 On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:43:25PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: > If you use BSD system only for few apps like PHP/Apache/MySQL it would > be easy. But if you have lots of stuff for desktop machine (gnome,xfce etc.) > it's very painful, long, and waste of time. (I don't have x386 33MHz CPU) > > This thing should be solved. I liked the way that my OS have independance > from ports. So no metter what I do with ports, my OS and his apps will work. > And If I upgrade the OS I dont want to recompile ports for that. > If this thing can be solved (I'm not programmer so I don't know) I can > donate some amount of $ for development. I think that this would make > lots of people happy. Am I to understand that you want prebuilt binary packages for PHP which encapsulate every possible combination of "make config" options? That's a bit unreasonable with how the ports framework is built. That's something like over a hundred prebuilt packages -- just for PHP. That said: I do understand what you're saying, and yes, I can see why you would want that. It does make sense, and it's reasonable. It's just hard to achieve. I don't think other mainstream OSes (e.g. Linux) offer this ability either, though. Am I wrong? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |