Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:49:10 -0700 From: Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removed ports - looking from the bench Message-ID: <20110911124910.GK13219@portland.byshenk.net> In-Reply-To: <20110910190549.GA23971@guilt.hydra> References: <4E6B1AF5.7090900@tomse.dk> <4E6B227B.5050708@FreeBSD.org> <4E6B77EE.6030509@gmx.de> <20110910171530.GC23457@guilt.hydra> <CADLo83_jp3Orrjp0LvVRnwxY-RL=0e8PSXmEruwaH7TsLZ7=VA@mail.gmail.com> <20110910190549.GA23971@guilt.hydra>
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 01:05:49PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 06:48:30PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > > On 10 September 2011 18:15, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 04:45:02PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > > >> > > >> I want to make installing dead ports harder for users. > > > > > > Why? > > > > Someone who wants to install a port that has been deprecated and > > removed should really have enough skills to check a port out of the > > Attic at least-- it's one command line. I don't see how much simpler > > it could get: > > This does not answer my question. I find the very concept of wanting to > make it harder for a user to install software bizarre. I could > understand wanting to achieve some other goal, and suffering the > unfortunate case of making it harder to install something, but I do not > understand the simple fact of wanting to make life harder for others, > unless it is a matter of pure spite. Thus my question: > > Why? Because, in the cases here under discussion, there is somethin "wrong" (for some value of 'wrong') with the software in question. I can't speak for Matthias or Chris, but I think the point here is that (at least some) people don't want to make foot-shooting easier. Someone who can't figure out how to install some software if it takes more than 'portinstall <software>' almost certainly isn't knowledgeable enough to evaluate the risks of installing buggy, exploitable, or unmaintained software. -- greg byshenk - gbyshenk@byshenk.net - Leiden, NL
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