Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:03:16 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unstable Ports (a rant) Message-ID: <38F75D64.71D5F4B0@acuson.com> References: <38F6788E.5A87AB3C@acuson.com> <20000414155835.A4420@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > Have you submitted problem reports? Why keep it all to yourself, if you > can unload and help the ports team make things better? Yes, I have submitted bugs. > That's hardly true. Almost everyone I've talked to have found ports > possibly the singular thing that might convert them to FreeBSD. I love the whole ports mechanism. It beats everything else out there. And quite a few of the ports are simply superb. But I've run across too many ports that seem unfinished. One did not even *execute* on my system, leading me to believe that the maintainer did not even do a minimal acceptance test. > Don't report bugs, and get pissed off, and convert to another operating > system, and you're not helping anyone. It's a waste of time to suffer > in silence with a massive team of people fighting each other to get to > help you. I'm not pissed off. Just frustrated. That why I announced in the subject line that this was a rant. I just needed to blow off steam after a day of trying to get stuff to work. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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