From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 13:45:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E71C1065672 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:45:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+3F=fdf8ebd4@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from fallback-in1.mxes.net (fallback-out1.mxes.net [216.86.168.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73258FC13 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:45:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+3F=fdf8ebd4@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-08.mxes.net (mxout-08.mxes.net [216.86.168.183]) by fallback-in1.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20781646FE for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:34:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71C7D0A2C for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:34:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:33:44 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081029133344.6960b5af@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20081029111033.GG7408@ece.pdx.edu> References: <20081029095511.GA76242@ozzmosis.com> <20081029111033.GG7408@ece.pdx.edu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ports missing their packages. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:45:40 -0000 On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:10:33 -0700 freebsd@t41t.com wrote: > andrew clarke 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.