ports and -current

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309210041350.26520-100000 at pcnet5.pcnet.com>
>             Daniel Eischen <eischen at vigrid.com> writes:
> : I'd like to see some barking up the other tree.  Why should fixes
> : to unbreak ports be held up by the freeze?
> 
> Because the ports folks do not want random changes going into the tree
> right now given that they have enough build problems on 4.9 related to
> GNOME.

Oddly enough, the GNOME ports are supposedly pretty much PTHREAD_LIBS
compliant.  It's really the KDE ports that have the brunt of the
problems.  Oh, yeah, and they just updated QT and KDE to the latest
releases.  I suppose that's OK, but committing fixes to unbreak
them on -current isn't.

-- 
Dan Eischen