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

[Erik Trulsson]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:36:46PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 08.09.2011 16:15, schrieb Mikhail T.:
> 
> > Having a poor port of an obscure
> > piece of software is better, than no port at all. 
> 
> A poor port is undesirable (and shouldn't be in the tree in the first
> place).

Highly debatable.   It is clear that a poor port is undesirable
compared to a good port, but very often a poor port is more desirable
than no port at all.

> 
> An obscure piece of software is undesirable (and shouldn't be ported in
> the first place).

Bullshit!
Keep in mind that FreeBSD itself is a fairly obscure piece
of software in that most people in the world have never heard of it.
For any given individual something like 90+% percent of the ports in
the ports-tree could count as obscure since that person has never heard
of that particular piece of software before.



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