2010/3/16 Julio Merino <j...@netbsd.org>: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Masao Uebayashi <uebay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Let me clarify: >> >> - NetBSD is used for many purposes. >> - The official binary should choose the sane default >> - FFS_EI enabled by default >> - XIP would be disabled by default >> - While leave developers freedom to customize NetBSD more. > > Err, no. BOTH developers and users should have the freedom to > customize NetBSD, not only developers. And, of course, users should > not have to rebuild anything, ever. If we can't provide such a > binary-friendly system, we have failed as developers. And it's > possible to provide such a system, as has been proven by Solaris, > Windows and, increasingly, Linux. > > (That doesn't mean developers shouldn't have the ability to rebuild > from source. Of course they should, that's the joy of open source! > But being open source is not an excuse to provide a system that cannot > be customized when distributed in binary form. Otherwise, that's no > different than the "no documentation because you can read the source" > policy...) > > -- > Julio Merino >
I'm wholeheartedly behind Julio's statement. Users should never have to rebuild anything. And as Julio stated in the past, this applies to pkgsrc aswell, where we recently did a major step forward with pkgin. Zafer.
