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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:24:15 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Justin Edward Muniz <justin.muniz@maine.edu>
Subject:   Re: Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends
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El 24/04/2013 13:45, "Chris Rees" <utisoft@gmail.com> escribi=F3:
>
> On 24 Apr 2013 05:36, "Justin Edward Muniz" <justin.muniz@maine.edu>
wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Justin I say stick to  FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng become=
s
> > > more popular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary
> packages
> > > become more popular . Kports is a monster program , you should set a
> > > reasonable goal ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup
> project
> > > .   Also a update notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would
be
> > > very useful .
> > >
> > > My 2cents .
> > > ---
> > > Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org
> > >
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much Mark,
> >
> >      I was definitely hoping to get community feedback on this, and I
> value
> > you voicing your opinion. I agree that kports is a mammoth, and also
that
> a
> > system updater GUI should have a way to notify the user of new updates.
> >
> >      Any other perspectives are welcome, as well as support for a
> > freebsd-update approach. I am working to refine my proposal, which as
> > you've pointed out is very important. Eventually I would like to help i=
n
> > all three mentioned areas, but for now I must focus on one application.
> > Does anyone think that a custom kernel configuration and management GUI
> > utility would be desirable?
> >
> >      I will shape my goals to meet the needs of the community.
>
> Our kernel is actually very easy to configure, so I'm not convinced that
> it's needed; you may be thinking of Linux's menuconfig, but I think that
is
> because of the complexity.

I agree. Also, the kind of people who compile their kernels probably feel
more comfortable in console mode :)

The frontend for pkgng and freebsd-update might have a bigger user base.

>
> Chris
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