Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:24:27 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> To: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>, mva@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, pkg@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool Message-ID: <AA960EEA3FCA297785076DB2@ogg.in.absolight.net> In-Reply-To: <5405AE54.60809@sorbs.net> References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> <CAOFF%2BZ1MOr9-rYbwHYWqBKjMvRPwUnew4jThEoJ_WkoTmwyNsQ@mail.gmail.com> <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> <54052891.5000104@my.hennepintech.edu> <54052DFA.4030808@freebsd.org> <54053372.6020009@my.hennepintech.edu> <5405890F.8080804@freebsd.org> <CAF-3MvNBWSEWF-HarwF0xcXQgo=7-dO%2BtvLMO1maELPY0RVhQQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140902125256.Horde.uv31ztwymThxUZ-OYPQoBw1@webmail.df.eu> <5405AE54.60809@sorbs.net>
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+--On 2 septembre 2014 13:47:32 +0200 Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote: | Marcus von Appen wrote: |> Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com>: |> |>> |>> I can totally understand that at some point it starts to get |>> impossible to maintain two separate packaging systems and I understand |>> that you think 2 years is enough time to shake things out, but |>> software vendors aren't that quick. For many, 2 years is a short time. |>> |> |> It also should be noted that everyone had enough time to raise those |> issues |> in the time between tthe announcement and now. No one did. Now that it is |> gone, they are brought up, while they should have been long time ago |> instead. It can't work that way. |> |> My 2 cents in this discussion :-). | | Actually I brought it up as soon as I found the EOL was a deadline for | breaking pkg_* tools, was told, "too late now" - that was more than 2 | weeks ago, less than 2 months ago (forget the date) ... I'm happy with | an EOL and working to upgrade everything, I'm not happy that the EOL was | not actually an EOL and it was actually a deadline. I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's *End Of Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more. -- Mathieu Arnold
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