Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:56:30 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is pkg quarterly really needed? Message-ID: <1492671390.1596386.950208816.5071A04B@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20170420052201.GC31559@lonesome.com> References: <58F61A8D.1030309@a1poweruser.com> <CALfReyctL3vTt756oyh1ZTf%2BkgpAOHwp_SUZQCFQiZDccFNMow@mail.gmail.com> <ljhffcphq3bqr8dk2lrlld11ola28b7gqp@4ax.com> <20170420052201.GC31559@lonesome.com>
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2017, at 06:22 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 04:37:05PM -0400, scratch65535@att.net wrote: > > (Right now, it's quite hard to resist the paranoid suspicion that > > maybe this crazy, anti-real-user behavior is a subtle way to kill > > freebsd altogether by driving away the non-hobbyists.) > > That's one explanation. > > The other, possible, explanation, is that the efforts of a group of > volunteers isn't adequate enough for every use case -- including your own. This!!! I used to help out a little with a Linux distro, many years ago when it was feasible for a handful of hobyists to do so in their spare time. The experience was sobering. In about 5 years I went from building my own LFS system without any help (I wasn't on the net) to seeing a bunch of people just barely keep up as Xorg and Gtk+ grew circular dependency chains, some users demanded stability while others wanted updates, and of course compile times were rapidly increasing.
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