Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:02:25 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: hetzels@westbend.net, jeh@FreeBSD.ORG, sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, joseph@randomnetworks.com, lioux@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www Makefile ports/www/frontpage-es Makefiledistinfo pkg-comment Message-ID: <20020103120225.A29560@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <200201021727.g02HR4f30365@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:27:01PM -0500 References: <20011230144820.A7229@mithrandr.moria.org> <200201021727.g02HR4f30365@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Wed 2002-01-02 (12:27), Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On 30 Dec, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > >> But this is off-topic -- it is up to the "Bento team" to devise > >> the new scheme -- the existing "one package per port" one is > >> insufficient. > > > No, like everything, it's up to the person complaining to actually get > > the work done - either by motivating others to do the work, or doing > > it themselves. > > My complaint is not, that the package building scheme is broken (it > seems to be, but I personally don't care). It is about the number of > "sattelite" ports, whose ONLY reason for existence is automatic package > building. > > Such ports are inconsistent and confusing (where are all the > incarnations of php and ghostscript, for example? Or the separate ports > for each of the kde2 i18n parts?) and should be removed, IMO. Actually, now that you mention it, last time I checked, NetBSD has, for example, php-mysql ports which provide mysql support for PHP. We should probably work on that and the others. Maybe then I can install php4 and postgresql and php4-postgresql packages on my machines without having to install the ports collection (and compilers, in one case). But ghostscript, I imagine, doesn't support being built once, and having stuff added on later, so it's not a target. But luckily someone was clever and removed the X dependency when making the ghostscript-nox11 port. Yay, now I can use ghostscript on my machines out of the box from the package! (This would be a joking reminder that people disagree with you and don't use FreeBSD the _exact_ _same_ _way_ as you, and that's not a problem, and thus we should try to accomodate people as much as possible.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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