Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:32:43 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> To: Marko Lerota <mlerota@iskon.hr> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements Message-ID: <20080319193243.GA30784@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <868x0ezh9u.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> References: <867igo3cih.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <47C749CF.4010501@FreeBSD.org> <86eja7et3j.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <47E0249C.8030700@FreeBSD.org> <868x0ezh9u.fsf@zid.claresco.hr>
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:43:25PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: > If you use BSD system only for few apps like PHP/Apache/MySQL it would > be easy. But if you have lots of stuff for desktop machine (gnome,xfce etc.) > it's very painful, long, and waste of time. (I don't have x386 33MHz CPU) > > This thing should be solved. I liked the way that my OS have independance > from ports. So no metter what I do with ports, my OS and his apps will work. > And If I upgrade the OS I dont want to recompile ports for that. > If this thing can be solved (I'm not programmer so I don't know) I can > donate some amount of $ for development. I think that this would make > lots of people happy. Am I to understand that you want prebuilt binary packages for PHP which encapsulate every possible combination of "make config" options? That's a bit unreasonable with how the ports framework is built. That's something like over a hundred prebuilt packages -- just for PHP. That said: I do understand what you're saying, and yes, I can see why you would want that. It does make sense, and it's reasonable. It's just hard to achieve. I don't think other mainstream OSes (e.g. Linux) offer this ability either, though. Am I wrong? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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