Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:55:11 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: joeb <joeb@a1poweruser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports missing their packages. Message-ID: <20081029095511.GA76242@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBIEDLCMAA.joeb@a1poweruser.com> References: <ed10cdcee021073d2cbf543da4ecdd9e.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBIEDLCMAA.joeb@a1poweruser.com>
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On Wed 2008-10-29 16:53:26 UTC+0800, joeb (joeb@a1poweruser.com) wrote: > Well if you have this cluster build process why have some ports never been > built all the way back to release 5.0 like kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8. That is > almost 3 years of waiting to get in the cluster build process. 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.
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