Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 03:02:47 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for feedback on a Ports-collection change Message-ID: <p06020460bc2800e7af21@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040112061248.GA12104@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <p0602041abc1660a416d0@[128.113.24.47]> <20040112061248.GA12104@xor.obsecurity.org>
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At 10:12 PM -0800 1/11/04, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Thu, Jan 08, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> To keep this as a "doable" project, I also have a fairly >> modest goal: Further reduce the inode-count of the ports >> collection. That's it. There are many things which could >> be done as a follow-on to this, but that's all I want to >> try for right now. > >I'm not immediately sure how you'll be able to do this without >irritating the majority of port maintainers (by dramatically >changing the system or making it harder to work on ports, >for little practical gain). I think you'll need to come up >with a prototype before we can evaluate the benefits and >drawbacks. Well, what I'm trying to address is a chicken-and-egg problem. I would like to get some feedback *before* I implement too much, so that I don't waste a lot of time implementing things that nobody cares about (while missing more important issues that everyone cares about). I also think I need to come up with a better presentation for what I ideas I do have, so it's easier to understand what I'm shooting for. I'm working on that now. So, Darren and I will work on this for a week or two, and then I'll ask for some more feedback. I expected that this would be an iterative process, and I know I kinda sprang this first round upon everyone without any warning. If we can't make a case for this project after a few iterations, then we'll just give up on the project. Certainly we have no interest in pissing off the very people who are getting all the real work done in ports. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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