Port system "problems"

[Chris Rees]

On 27 June 2012 20:17, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2012-Jun-26 14:41:32 -0700, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
>>> but I hope the ports build system will not
>>> be thrown out as part of the pkgng migration.
>>
>>Where do you think packages would come from, if not built by the ports tree?  ;)
>
> As long as it's still available to users.  Presumably most
> "packages-only" Linux distros have some sort of build mechanism as
> well but it's not readily accessible by ordinary users.  I would hope
> FreeBSD doesn't go down this path.

So do many others.  There aren't plans to get rid of the ports tree
for users, but nearly all would be highly advised to use packages once
we have a decent packaging system.

Most of the issues with the ports tree that people have are building
on unclean systems; sympathy for inability to build on heavily
modified machines is going to become less common.

Chris