On Thu, Apr 20, 2017, at 06:22 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 04:37:05PM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > > (Right now, it's quite hard to resist the paranoid suspicion that > > maybe this crazy, anti-real-user behavior is a subtle way to kill > > freebsd altogether by driving away the non-hobbyists.) > > That's one explanation. > > The other, possible, explanation, is that the efforts of a group of > volunteers isn't adequate enough for every use case -- including your own.
This!!! I used to help out a little with a Linux distro, many years ago when it was feasible for a handful of hobyists to do so in their spare time. The experience was sobering. In about 5 years I went from building my own LFS system without any help (I wasn't on the net) to seeing a bunch of people just barely keep up as Xorg and Gtk+ grew circular dependency chains, some users demanded stability while others wanted updates, and of course compile times were rapidly increasing. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"