THANK YOU for flavors!

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Thu Dec 7 13:36:15 UTC 2017


On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:51:15AM -0500, Baho Utot wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/07/17 04:30, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> > Op 07/12/2017 om 00:51 schreef Mel Pilgrim:
> >> In the midst of all the negative noise, I thought I'd post and say
> >> thank you for bring in this feature.  I've been chomping at the bit to
> >> try flavours out since I heard about them.  I started flavouring my
> >> company's internal Ports Tree extension the evening after it landed.
> >>
> >> Flavours are going to reduce 18 server role metaports to 3.
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> > Do you have a web page where flavours are explained nicely for non
> > technical FreeBSD users so that they can also see the benefits of
> > flavour. I think it is a little odd that a big change like this is not
> > mentioned in any way on the front page of FreeBSD.
> > I really believe things are better this way albeit i did not read and
> > understand it in a whole. I also believe flavours are nice in a multi
> > server envirement and on the desktop.
> > The negative noice comes from people who USE FreeBSD on a single machine
> > or maybe 2 and are now confronted with there old habbits not working
> > anymore.
> > Give those people a walkthrough how they can run poudriere. Best without
> > out a server but just a oneliner they need to remeber for future
> > updates. They do not want to spend too much time reading and trying to
> > update there system.
> > If FreeBSD has done that i think that was lot less negative noice on the
> > channels.
> > 
> > Secondly I want to thank you all for the great product FreeBSD is and it
> > is a great product thanks to all the time people infest into FreeBSD.
> > So thank you all. But i also hope FreeBSD learns from these big changes.
> > If FreeBSD want a larger userbase, single machine users are there. And
> > they do not want to spend an hour reading through a poudriere man page.
> > They just want to type pgk upgrade, portmaster -d -a, or maybe poudriere
> > update ports for all that matters.
> > 
> 
> users also don't want to wake up to the fact that what worked a few days 
> ago not is working ie fetch/update port repo run synth and then get a " 
> What the fuck has just happened now" only to be put down by the so 
> called folks in charge here for even asking.

I think we all understood your point. Please come back if you have
something new to say.

Thank you!

-- 
Lars


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