Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:33:55 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> Subject: Re: [PATCH] portmaster with SU_CMD Message-ID: <op.t1otmt1b9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0711111451130.20729@ync.qbhto.arg> References: <20071111155343.GC1567@ted.stsp.lan> <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0711111451130.20729@ync.qbhto.arg>
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:59:50 -0600, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > This is very interesting stuff, but I don't see how it would be useful > to a very wide audience. My feeling is that the vast majority of our > users build and/or install ports as root, and I don't see any good > reason for that not to be the default practice. > > I'll review your patch more thoroughly when time allows (since we are in > a freeze I can't add new features right now anyway) but I'm not inclined > to add this unless there is a fairly substantial clamor for it. > > In fact I think I've passed a tipping point for portmaster where the > complexity of the code, and the number of options (and thus, optional > code paths) make adding new stuff very hard to do without introducing > more bugs, and because there are so many different combinations of > options it's hard to regression test improvements to existing features, > never mind new ones. > > I'm not saying I'll never add a new feature, just that there needs to be > a really good reason to do so. I agree, because you can't build any ports in /usr/ports as in normal user anyway. I don't see any good reason to do it either. Cheers, Mezz > Doug -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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