future for FBSD on alpha

[macgyver]

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:06 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:34:25AM -0000, Angus MacGyver wrote:

> > 
> > 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.
> 


Big ports - yeah true - gotta start somewhere mind...

I have 84 on this replacement x86 box - and it won't have been much
different from the AXP machine - as it does pretty much same job.


Another question that probably needs answering - and that may well skew
what ports will be required - what do we all use AXP's for ?


Me for example ran one as a webserver with no graphics card - just
serial line access (the jails were each DNS/IRC/Mail/Http for isolation)


I also ran another virtually identical (+gfx card) machine as a desktop
(tell you what - I *knew* when I had that thing turned on - I didn't
need to have the heating on upstairs!!!)

Completely different uses will radically alter what ports are required.

Regards

AM