Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:47:36 +0100 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: INDEX[-5] files were removed from CVS. Message-ID: <200411141947.39918.benlutz@datacomm.ch> In-Reply-To: <20041113101925.GB70256@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <20041113101925.GB70256@voodoo.oberon.net>
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--nextPart1985503.u7cWbsJ02b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline This change is most annoying. I'm not questioning the decision, I'm sure=20 that a lot of people who know the ports system much better than I do have=20 discussed it in-depth, but I would like to state that this change was=20 done in an ungraceful and disruptive manner. I noticed that something was different when my portupgrade suddenly took=20 ages. There being *nothing* about this in UPGRADING didn't exactly help=20 either. Next time, can't you please give an advance warning (a HEADSUP=20 mail to the mailing lists is enough, but please do it a few days before=20 you change things). Also, an UPGRADING entry is a must. And if would have=20 been extra considerate if you had waited with this change until that new=20 index generator tool was in the ports. Some of the machines I admin are=20 very weak, and make index is just not practical. Granted, make fetchindex=20 works, but how is that an improvement over having the INDEX in CVS. As for an always out of date INDEX - I'd rather have an INDEX file that I=20 know only gets updated every few weeks, but which works and which I don't=20 have to worry about. Well, I guess giving people some incentive to think about how to improve=20 the ports system is a good thing. Would have been nice though if that=20 incentive had been a carrot instead of a pitch fork though. Benjamin --nextPart1985503.u7cWbsJ02b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBl6hLgShs4qbRdeQRAuWdAJ9HhzsNNftSMc+XmgODXqJunMn7mQCfZ18m lXstxw/gbrKzkNrbHt2W6qQ= =uXTB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1985503.u7cWbsJ02b--
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