svn commit: r353900 - head/math/sage

[Adam Weinberger]

On 13 May 2014, at 10:06, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:

> Thanks for fixing it.
>
> Look, you do make some good points.  I'll really try to think of 
> better
> ways to achieve the same thing.  I already came to the conclusion that
> the 60 second wait is too long.
>
> But it is also a port that is somewhat non-functional.  It doesn't 
> build
> with FreeBSD-10.  And recently I tried updating it to version 6.2, and
> this looks like it is also going to be problematical.  There are many
> issues with it.  That's why I am not in a big hurry to get things 
> fixed.
>
> But I do get your points, and I am listening.
>
> Also, you could have done a spoof post of the same nature.  And then I
> would have got the joke, and not become furious.  Stepping on someone
> else's port is not a good joke to make.

If you want people to avoid staging and packaging, just tell them to 
install it via pkg install.

Due to the fact that the source tarball is 400 MB, you can safely assume 
that the pre-everything: will have a 60 second pauses during both 
fetching, extraction, and probably checksum too.

Don't forget to breathe.

# Adam


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