Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:05:26 +1000 From: "Christopher Vance" <cjsvance@gmail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports tree tagging again Message-ID: <ace45c0a0608180005n2af8b2dfvdc01eb91d01965fe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060818064537.GA78016@underworld.novel.ru> References: <20060816123335.GA42090@underworld.novel.ru> <20060816172835.GA29719@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060817053955.GD62148@underworld.novel.ru> <20060817124739.GA3643@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060818064537.GA78016@underworld.novel.ru>
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On 8/18/06, Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@freebsd.org> wrote: > I'm not the only person who wants to have stable ports tree and binary > packages. Actually, about 90% people whom I asked about that said it > would be nice. OpenBSD does exactly what you want - a branched, stable ports tree, and a preference for precompiled binary packages. Have you tried it? Of course, they have far fewer ports. NetBSD pkgsrc also has branched, stable tree, but you might need to build your own packages. Have you tried it? I find some aspects of the way packages are built and installed on OpenBSD superior to FreeBSD, particularly the insistence that you package before you install, rather than after (a FreeBSD port I used to maintain tripped up badly enough on this that I dropped it). That would also kill the DESTDIR thread... But it seems to me that FreeBSD has its priorities in different areas (like being polite to people) and that's fine - that's why there are several projects. If you want people to branch stuff, you get to choose between putting your own effort into doing it yourself for FreeBSD, if you have other reasons to stay with FreeBSD, or moving to another OS that already does it, at the cost of having fewer ports. You get to choose what your own priorities are, and to hang out with people who have the same ones. Trying to make FreeBSD do what OpenBSD does, or vice versa, is just plain overoptimistic. -- Christopher
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