Port system "problems"

[Marcus von Appen]

On, Tue Jun 26, 2012, Mark Felder wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:42:54 -0500, Marcus von Appen <mva at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > That said, I might assume that the sqlite solution is faster, but noone
> > can see that yet.
> >
>
> The new system will be much, much better overall and people just need to
> stop making conclusions without knowing all the facts.

Then please provide facts. Do not get me wrong - I neither want to be
nit-picking (well, just a bit ;-)  nor I want to fight that idea by any
means, but there was just a "sub-packages with StageDir will improve
everything" rant without any arguments.

> It's going to be a heavily revamped system so people should stop
> comparing it to our current architecture. It's only similar on the
> surface.

Why should we stop to compare it? It aims to replace an architecture and
hence performs similar tasks and tries to fulfill certain needs. That
should qualify it for comparision in one or another way.

Once more: I do not oppose the idea, but right now I do not see any
sustainable concept nor anything else. I do not want all those working
on it to run into a situation in which more people are unhappy with the
solution provided. I also do not want to work with a system that burdens
me with tasks that I do not _want_ to fulfill. This is why I ask about
all those things, so I can throw in my to cents to make the system
appealing for me.

And thus I want to understand at least the big picture, concept and
workflows.

Cheers
Marcus
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