On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 15:22:34 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:45:42 -0400 > Sahil Tandon articulated: > > > I am sorry users have had to "intervene" in managing their systems, > > but rather than removing the option entirely, I prefer mandree@'s more > > structural suggestion of re-prompting the user when defaults change. > > In the meantime, a note in UPDATING about explicitly disabling the > > GNUTLS option for cups ports is probably appropriate. I have copied > > the maintainer in hopes that he will consider it. > > Sahil, I think you are being a little to flippant regrading this > problem.
I do not mean to be flippant, so if that is how my message came across, I am sorry. > Obviously any end user is responsible for maintaining his/her system. > It is apparently that FreeBSD does not test updates as rigorously as > other OSs might. Therefore, when the problem was first discovered in > regards to "cups" and "GNUTLS" it is obviously that the end user would > have to manually correct the problem. Yes, a bit of manual intervention may be required, and for this inconvenience there should have been something in UPDATING. > However, this is no longer day 0. The particulars of this case are > well know. IMHO, a notice should have been inserted into the UPDATING > file immediately -- in other words as soon as the phenomena was > confirmed. To allow the port to be shipped with a known problem > borders on criminal. At the very lest, it displays gross indifference > to the users of FreeBSD. Criminal? Indifference? This sort of troll-ish hyperbole is decidedly unhelpful. I do agree that a note in UPDATING is appropriate. > Nothing here is specifically blaming your for this problem. It takes > more than one individual to screw things up this thoroughly. However, > it takes only one person with a set of balls to get a solution > implemented. The fact that you are actually going to wait for the > maintainer the port in question to give his permission for you to > issue a warning and hopefully a fix for this problem is pathetic. Ah, more trolling. > Seriously, and I don't mean any disrespect, but what government agency > do you work for? :) I don't work for a government agency, but cute attempt. -- Sahil Tandon <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
