Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 05:11:11 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued Message-ID: <199708031211.FAA01496@blimp.mimi.com> In-Reply-To: <199708022133.HAA14498@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> (message from David Nugent on Sun, 03 Aug 1997 07:33:39 %2B1000)
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* From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> This post contains most of what I wanted to say, so let me just quote the relevant points and add a useless "me too !" message to the debate. :) * I don't care one way or another about "bloat". It is irrelevent * to the point I was making. Me too. I have gobs of disk space (I just got a 9GB drive as a replacement as a 4GB drive...gotta love those folks at Quantum :). What I'm concerned is consistency, manageability, timeliness, etc. * The ports system, in spite of its faults and shortfalls, *works*, * and works extremely well, mainly because of the efforts of porters * and Satoshi's management. But I hardly need to point this out to You can also include Jordan for coming up with the idea and implementing it first. (And as usual, when Americans make something, a Japanese (me) comes in to improve the product. :) * That * point of view misses the issue entirely. tcl is a major headache * in terms of multiple version operability. Yes. I should have yelled louder when tcl75 went in -- if I haven't read Prof. Ousterhout's release notes to tcl74/tk40 that he "made some mistakes, and wanted to correct them before too late -- tk40 is that correction" (paraphrased) and believed that that is the last time he would say that, I would have. Satoshi
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