sysutils/cfs

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Fri Sep 9 11:21:18 UTC 2011


On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:54:36 +0200
Matthias Andree <mandree at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Am 08.09.2011 13:52, schrieb Matt Burke:
> 
> > What the current FreeBSD policy of actively deleting perfectly
> > usable ports instead of putting a mild hurdle in the way is saying,
> > is that FreeBSD will stop me doing what I may want to do because
> > FreeBSD knows best.
> 
> The port isn't perfectly usable (because that would mean it's usable
> in all circumstances for all advertised purposes, which is explicitly
> not the case in the light of known vulnerabilities).

And just how in the world can you verify that *any* port is "perfectly
usable" by your definition?  Should we just go ahead and delete every
port in the collection then?

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Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads at cox.net


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