Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:11:53 -0400 From: matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: marco.broeder@gmx.eu Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Sticky Bit <stickybit@gmx.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qt4 ports descriptions Message-ID: <28283d910903241611n695018e9g934acf921f15dda3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200903242322.18533.marco.broeder@gmx.eu> References: <49C9256C.2040900@telenix.org> <200903242202.28054.marco.broeder@gmx.eu> <49C954F0.8050803@FreeBSD.org> <200903242322.18533.marco.broeder@gmx.eu>
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Marco Br=C3=B6der <marco.broeder@gmx.eu> w=
rote:
> On Tue March 24 2009 22:47:28 Doug Barton wrote:
> > Marco, I think you misunderstood what Chuck said. The term "attaboy"
> > is an English colloquialism that means roughly "congratulations for a
> > job well done." What Chuck is saying is that the kde maintainers
> > should be congratulated for adding appropriate pkg-descr files to the
> > ports they maintain.
>
> Well, English is not my native language. If your description is what he
> actually means then I totally misunderstood it and I am sorry. :-)
>
> > hope this helps,
>
> Sure it does! Thanks!
>
> There are too many people who demand and complain a lot but do not
> contribute anything. Instead they attack the folks who actually do the
> work.
> This is especially true for KDE. It will be even more true for QT 4.5,
> because FreeBSD is now an officially unsupported platform ('thanks' to
> Nokia).
> So it will be even more hard to port and maintain this stuff in the futur=
e.
>
> Many users want everything right now but nobody but very few actually do
> the
> jobs. And THIS is extremely frustrating and annoying.
>
> That is the message I intended to say. ;-)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Marco Br=C3=B6der <marco.broeder@gmx.eu>
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>
Chuck is more complaining about the QT4 ports descriptions since he does no=
t
get it that all of it is required to program in QT4. so of course it will
all have the same description since it all comes from one tarball think
freebsd just breaks some of it up though but I could be wrong
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