Mathieu Arnold wrote:
I'm only going to answer that part, the rest of the thread being, I feel, mostly FUD. ... The BIND ports were in such a miserable way, with kludges everywhere, when I took over that it took me some time to get them right.
I wish people wouldn't make statements like this. The thread has been informative in many ways and clearly not FUD. I also wish people would not insult previous base and port maintainers by labelling their work buggy or kludgy. All code has bugs. Even having a REPLACE_BASE that only prints "REPLACE_BASE is no longer supported" can be considered a bug. Having two identically named binaries on a system that differ only by path and version can also be considered a kludge (not to mention a security issue). While I'm not personally impacted by the bind port's deprecation of REPLACE_BASE clearly others are. As Doug pointed out this option has been around for well over a decade and like other ports with a REPLACE_BASE option has saved FreeBSD admins a lot of work in cross-platform environments. One question while we're on the topic of deprecations, has 'make pkg || make package' been deprecated in favor of poudriere? Roger _______________________________________________ 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"
