Flaws in the ports system?

[Christopher JS Vance]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:47:28PM +0200, nocturnal wrote:
>This is a very low priority discussion but i was just wondering if there 
>are any known design flaws in the ports system or other reasons for the 
>ports to be replaced by a new system.

Needing to make install before make package is a design flaw - it
should be the other way around.  The implementation needs to be able
to ensure that the building host's environment is affected only by
installing the package/port, not just by building the port into a
package.  It can be done.

I like the number of ports available in FreeBSD compared to the other
BSDs, so it's not all one way.

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Christopher Vance