From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 19:17:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D100106564A for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:17:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) Received: from vps.rulingia.com (host-122-100-2-194.octopus.com.au [122.100.2.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A5E8FC15 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.rulingia.com (c220-239-248-69.belrs5.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.248.69]) by vps.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5RJHkJs074370 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:17:46 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.rulingia.com (localhost.rulingia.com [127.0.0.1]) by server.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5RJHdkK064881 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:17:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.rulingia.com) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q5RJHcC5064880; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:17:38 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:17:38 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Freddie Cash Message-ID: <20120627191738.GA55796@server.rulingia.com> References: <4FE97008.2060501@netfence.it> <4FE97AE1.9080109@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4FE9817C.7020905@netfence.it> <4FE99200.7050107@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120626130715.Horde.eb3fPtjz9kRP6ZfjA7sSFoA@webmail.df.eu> <4FE9AB85.3070106@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120626162055.0b2bdb0d@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120626205641.GD1651@aspire.rulingia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.rulingia.com/keys/peter.pgp User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port system "problems" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:17:48 -0000 --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Jun-26 14:41:32 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: >On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> but I hope the ports build system will not >> be thrown out as part of the pkgng migration. > >Where do you think packages would come from, if not built by the ports tre= e? ;) As long as it's still available to users. Presumably most "packages-only" Linux distros have some sort of build mechanism as well but it's not readily accessible by ordinary users. I would hope FreeBSD doesn't go down this path. --=20 Peter Jeremy --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk/rXFIACgkQ/opHv/APuIfNAQCeLSPIol4xcxVuLBkyD+iq0SDN ZOAAn3GJS8ebjFhWvBmv/A6Gwjem0Mgj =NE/N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--