On 2012-Jun-26 17:40:08 +0100, Chris Rees <cr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >Also, with pkgng the emphasis is more on binary upgrades. We really >shouldn't still be compiling from source for everything in this day >and age-- we're one of only two major projects that still do this as >the main upgrade solution.
One of the big benefits of the FreeBSD ports system is that I can customise ports to suit my needs. I don't have choice forced upon me by a ports maintainer - who may have totally different requirements. I agree the current _package_ system has some rough edges (lack of synchronisation/serialisation to cope with parallel installs and poor overall performance) but I hope the ports build system will not be thrown out as part of the pkgng migration. -- Peter Jeremy
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