On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 04:39:25PM -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > even the native ports system usage on personal machines > wwill fade away.
I have seen this claim many times by users but AFAIR that was never a goal. The feeling was that _most_ users would migrate to using packages, once using packages had been made much easier and more robust than the previous packaging technology. (Disclaimer: I was much more familiar with the internals of the old pkg-* tools and the bad state that they had gotten into.) > The past 2 years a great > amount of effort has gone into bring the handbook up to > date with the current status of the operating system. But > it is a very far cry from a teaching aid. I have some proposed patches for the ports section that need to be dusted off and committed. But I think your critism is valid -- it works as a reference better than as a tutorial. The latter is not fixable in the near-term (simply due to volunteer cycles). mcl _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
