ports (was: Ugly Huge BSD Monster)

[Terry Lambert]

Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > Interesting. I tried downloading the tarball, but it doesn't compile;
> 
> cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/ctwm && make install clean
> or
> pkg_add -r ctwm
> 
> Did you try to compile KDE from the raw tarball too?  That would
> explain a lot about all those alleged incompatibilities with FreeBSD.

Actually, it would just broaden his criteria to "out of the box".

I'm not sure that this is valid, if no one has pursued getting
the ports patches donated back to the KDE project itself.

If the ports patches make the code FreeBSD specific (i.e. they
are nothing more than a crude hack), then I'd say he had a point,
and that "someone who believes GPL'ed code should ``work out of
the box on FreeBSD'' should step up and provide real patches to
the KDE project".

Saying that last either invalidates or reinforces his argument,
depending on the nature of the patches FreeBSD applies.

-- Terry