Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:17:39 +1000 From: Christopher JS Vance <freebsd@nu.org> To: nocturnal <nocturnal@swehack.se> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flaws in the ports system? Message-ID: <20051022051739.GB10853@nu.org> In-Reply-To: <4357D830.7060506@swehack.se> References: <4357D830.7060506@swehack.se>
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:47:28PM +0200, nocturnal wrote: >This is a very low priority discussion but i was just wondering if there >are any known design flaws in the ports system or other reasons for the >ports to be replaced by a new system. Needing to make install before make package is a design flaw - it should be the other way around. The implementation needs to be able to ensure that the building host's environment is affected only by installing the package/port, not just by building the port into a package. It can be done. I like the number of ports available in FreeBSD compared to the other BSDs, so it's not all one way. -- Christopher Vance
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