THANK YOU for flavors!

Stari Karp starikarp at yandex.com
Thu Dec 7 22:43:59 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 07:51 -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 understand your frustration but I am happy with Synth and Mr. Marino
made patches extremely fast. I updated everything with success.




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