Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:33:44 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports missing their packages. Message-ID: <20081029133344.6960b5af@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20081029111033.GG7408@ece.pdx.edu> References: <ed10cdcee021073d2cbf543da4ecdd9e.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBIEDLCMAA.joeb@a1poweruser.com> <20081029095511.GA76242@ozzmosis.com> <20081029111033.GG7408@ece.pdx.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:10:33 -0700 freebsd@t41t.com wrote: > andrew clarke <mail_ozzmosis.com> said (on 2008/10/29): > > You need to understand that the FreeBSD project by its nature is > > primarily source-code driven. Making packages available (of any > > port) is of very low priority in comparison to the rest of the > > system (testing, documentation, etc). Demanding that the FreeBSD > > volunteers build a package just because you want to use it is a bit > > unfair, particularly when you can make one yourself without much > > trouble. > > I'm not sure I got all the emails in this thread... maybe some just > haven't arrived yet. > > Anyway... I, for one, depend on packages. It literally takes days to > build something like Firefox on my (admittedly old) computer. In that case I would suggest that you stick to release versions and don't update your ports tree between releases unless there's a significant vulnerability that's fixed in the current tree.
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