From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Apr 14 11: 5:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9A037B8E8 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:05:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA468; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:05:59 -0700 Message-ID: <38F75D64.71D5F4B0@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:03:16 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unstable Ports (a rant) References: <38F6788E.5A87AB3C@acuson.com> <20000414155835.A4420@mithrandr.moria.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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