future for FBSD on alpha

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:34:25AM -0000, Angus MacGyver wrote:
> 
> On Fri, August 1, 2008 00:06, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
> >
> > Having us testing will help the port maintainers a lot.
> 
> 
> Whilst I would support testing - I personally have fairly limited time to
> build and test now - and quite a lot of sysadmins I know are in the same
> boat.
> 
> If there are enough people to do this - then it might just work.
> 
> The we must do - if this is going to go ahead, - is to make  reasonable
> decisions about what ports are the "most wanted" - say apache22 and mysql
> for example - and not "care" about something like "joe" (I just use these
> as examples - after all one can use a different editor - but a different
> webserver or DB is another matter)

this sounds like a good idea - a list of most wanted ports.
However, even 1 or 2 big ports might require lots of dependencies.
For example I've 229 ports at present, of which only 20 or so
are top level, like ImageMagick, xpdf, teTeX, some X clients.


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