ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs)

[Mikhail T.]

On 08.09.2011 04:42, Greg Byshenk wrote:
> For many people, what "THERE IS A PORT OF IT" actually -means- is
> that the user can go to ports and install a -working- version of
> the software, not merley that there is something called 'IT'
> somewhere in the ports tree that may or may not work.

Some ports -- both maintained or disowned -- will always be behind the 
upstream. Some ports will always be better than others. Simply removing 
those, where the perceived quality drops below somebody's subjective 
threshold does not improve quality. Having a poor port of an obscure 
piece of software is better, than no port at all. And, yes, this is the 
core of the disagreement... Yours,

    -mi