Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:19:47 -0500 From: <scratch65535@att.net> To: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The ports collection has some serious issues Message-ID: <5j7d5c5i7s9man9umkk51b7rijh9n20vph@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <2E32E0E1-C44F-497B-9852-6E2A6E331FD8@freebsd.org> References: <192c99ca-ed3b-44da-633a-99629fdcea70@marino.st> <20161217132608.GA1352@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> <54CEEF4F-3E62-45D1-902A-DA4372E9F060@freebsd.org> <20161217194758.GB7888@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> <2E32E0E1-C44F-497B-9852-6E2A6E331FD8@freebsd.org>
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On 17 Dec 2016, at 20:47, Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl> wrote: > But ever >> since some time during the 9.X era I started to pick up signs that the >> FreeBSD project as a whole is moving into a direction that troubles me--in >> some cases deeply indeed. I don't know what direction Fonz sees the project moving in [his loss will be significant, and I personally wish he would reconsider], but I've had a sense for some time that there's an undercurrent of some kind moving us insensibly toward Linux and, strangely, a mix of uncaringness and authoritarianism. I can't really quote specifics on my perception of a Linux-ward drift because I haven't been keeping an evidence notebook. But for evidence of authoritarianism creeping in, I offer the imposition of the new pkg utility on all of us awhile back even though it was still half-baked. That came as qute a shock, at least to me. I didn't like it at all. And now there seems to be some psychological warfare going on over basic build tools. I go back a ways with FreeBSD, v1.1.3 or something like that. So I'm not ready to bail, but I really, truly, no-kidding perceive a drift toward incoherence that, unless reversed, will make FreeBSD just another footnote in computing history, like Minix, 386BSD, the UCSD P-system, and others that after a brief heyday ceased to matter because their support base was hobby-oriented and uncommitted, with neither a clear vision for the future nor even a desire for one.
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