On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:04:22PM +0100, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: > Today I had the pleasure to install some java port and well it was > quite frustrating. I still have to download all the distfiles > manually. Isn't FreeBSD now officially supported by Sun? Is it really > still necessary to manually fetch the distfiles or is this something > that could be looked at again? > > Theoretically: > > What if the port would just point to the distfiles and don't actually > host them on any FreeBSD mirror. Wouldn't that be legal? I mean a link > some site that provides instruction on how to build an atomic bomb is > still legal as well, right? If so I could simply upload the distfiles > to some russian FTP server and nobody but Sun would really care. > > This is so annyoing: > > - Manually fetch > - Login to some bloated sun.com site > > ARGHH!!! > > </frustration> > > Sandra
Why not just use diablo-{jdk,jre}-* then? Yuri _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"