Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 18:30:08 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@) Message-ID: <200712041830.11581.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4755FD83.3020909@u.washington.edu> References: <47541063.4010101@gmail.com> <475492DD.6090401@telia.com> <4755FD83.3020909@u.washington.edu>
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Garrett Cooper said: > 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 I strongly second that suggestion. There is far too much noise on some of these lists as it is. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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