On 2005-08-15, Toma¾ Bor¹tnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Hauser wrote: >> dillon wrote @ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:27:44 -0700 (PDT): >> >> >>> So the answer is no... we are going to have to move to (almost >>> certainly) pkgsrc and fix whatever issues we have with it. >> >> >> Well, currently ports are still better than pkgsrc. > Ports have warm feeling for us, because we use them for so long, not because > they are generally best there. > >> And the way pkgsrc is >> being forced upon us, politically instead of technically, will fail. > > Read technical debates here and you will learn than pkgsrc generally has > wider view of operating systems. Read > freebsd-amd64 mailing list and you will learn that many ports are marked i386 > only, because nobody bothered to check > whether they work fine on 64bit systems as well, etc. I dont mind which > packaging system we use as long as it does do > the work and people use it.
Of course, that's irrelevant for dragonfly until it runs natively on 64-bit CPUs... > It is a fact of life that FreeBSD wont adopt ports for other projects so this > project would always need to play > catch-the-ports game like it did in the past. With pkgsrc you have other > people supporting this project as well and > generally things should only improve with time because of that. That's probably true, though..it's enough work for us to support FreeBSD on 4 active branches. Kris
