State of Packages

Walter Hurry walterhurry at gmail.com
Sun Apr 7 00:56:55 UTC 2013


On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:02:38 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:25:42 -0500 Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've been using FreeBSD since the summer of 2005, I still have the
>> first cd-r I used.  The fact that it's so easy makes me wonder why it
>> hasn't been done yet.  It's been almost five months.
> 
> 	It's easy to build a repository, it's hard to build a secure 
public
> repository.

Agreed; that's why I haven't attempted to do so. Also, I only build 
packages for the 600 or so packages in which I am interested, and only 
for the FreeBSD version in use, and only for the specific CPU 
architecture.

Maybe Joshua is overlooking something.



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