ports system woes

Michel Talon talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr
Wed Mar 26 07:00:50 PDT 2008


Frank Mayhar wrote:

> Portupgrade is, in fact, my preferred application, although
> lately I've had to move to portmaster just because of the O(n^2)
> inefficiencies.  It doesn't need to be replaced, it needs to be fixed,

I have rarely seen such a wonderful contradiction between the two halves
of the same sentence.

> Oh, please.  The FreeBSD ports system works as well.  Instead of

No, it doesn't or it does barely.

> complaining, why don't you actually do someting about it?  Code speaks
> louder than mere words.

We have learnt recently that many people have brought code to the table,
including myself, only to be scorned by people of your sort. I have yet
to see people like you contributing any testing or discussion when code
is offered, all you are good for is parrotting "Code speaks louder than
mere words".


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Michel TALON



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