Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:23:15 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Andreas Pettersson <andpet@telia.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@) Message-ID: <4755FD83.3020909@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <475492DD.6090401@telia.com> References: <47541063.4010101@gmail.com> <475492DD.6090401@telia.com>
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Andreas Pettersson wrote:
> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>> 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports
>> system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)?
>>
>
>> 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is
>> the most common interaction you have with it?
>>
> Portupgrade a few times a month
>
>> 3. What is the single best aspect of the current system?
>>
> Installed ports are configurally very similar to the source
> distribution (no renamed config files etc), so it's easy to get
> support from the community.
>
>> 4. What is the single worst aspect of the current system?
>>
> I find it difficult to downgrade installed ports.
>
>> 5. If you where a new FreeBSD user how would your answers above
>> change? If you where brand new to UNIX how whould they change?
>>
> Not sure.
>
>> 6. Assuming that there was no additional work on your behalf would you
>> use a new system if it corrected your answer to number 4?
>>
> I think so.
>
>> 7. Same as question 6 but for your answer on question 3?
>>
> I think not.
>
>> 8. How long have you used FreeBSD and/or UNIX in general?
>>
> FreeBSD since 2003.
>
>> 9. That is your primary use(s) for your FreeBSD machine(s) (name
>> upto 3)?
>>
> Firewall, development, misc
>
>> 10. Assuming there is no functional difference what is your preferred
>> installation method for 3rd party software?
>>
> Ports
>
>> 11. On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the best) please rate the
>> importance of the following aspects of the ports system?
>>
>> a. User Interface *5*
>> b. Consistency of behaviors and interactions *7*
>> c. Accuracy in dependant port installations *8*
>> d. Internal record keeping *6*
>> e. Granularity's of the port management system *?*
>>
>> 12. Please rate your personal technical skill level?
>>
> Average
>
Instead of asking all of the questions on a list, why not just
direct people to input information via a webpage? Seems to be a bit more
effective / less traffic than posting results to multiple lists..
-Garrett
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