Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 14:41:13 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports Message-ID: <4.1.19990309142131.00ca2cc0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <36E58F52.EDE01EF4@softweyr.com> References: <67162.921011604@zippy.cdrom.com>
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At 02:14 PM 3/9/99 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: >Nor should it. My point, as well as those of the others in this dicussion, >is that the current scheme is NOT broken, it just is. It's easy to say "it's not broken" until you attempt to bring in a port, for a version of the OS that was released very recently, and find out that it's an old version that has a security hole. A system that doesn't make it easy to do what makes sense -- that is, to keep the ports for recently released OS versions current -- is broken, or at the very least has a real problem. >I'm sure you are as >tired as the rest of us of Brett's impassioned pleas to spoon-feed him >everything he needs to run his business with no consideration given back. Give me a break. The two most recent offers I've made to "give back" have been rejected. One of these -- an offer to devote a bunch of time to getting FreeBSD running on IBM Netfinity servers -- was rejected rather capriciously. Such treatment doesn't exactly make folks feel as if contributions are welcome. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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