[RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:23:20 -0600, Aryeh Friedman
> <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order the leaves
>>> are installed, because some ports will use alternate dependencies
>>> according to what's already there. It makes things a lot easier to
>>> maintain.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> btw xdm is not the worst offender for example if you install abiword
>> after installing gnome it will not start but if you install it before
>> hand then install gnome no issue
>
> Have you report this to gnome at FreeBSD.org yet? The abiword port will
> enable with GNOME option by default if GNOME exists in system, but
> you can avoid that by use WITHOUT_GNOME=yes. You want to rewrite
> ports system because of this?
>

It was one of several examples... jesus how I wish I could post some
of the private replies I got so people could see the amount of
frustration out there with the current system but that would color
other replies so I will wait until I don't get any new survey replies
for 24 hrs then I will post a summary and verbatum the ones the
orginal authors let me do this with.


- --
Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
Developer, not business, friendly
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFHVMOW358R5LPuPvsRAg9zAJ0W8m1qTLp7lQ22G78oJS8DSgrr7wCdHgsA
fGrYY61Uq9pWI5dg0dIFqzg=
=57V5
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----