Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-05 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Mornin', On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:23:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Instead of asking all of the questions on a list, why not just direct people to input information via a webpage? Seems to be a bit more effective / less traffic than posting results to multiple lists.. Instead

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates if and when needed vary from ASAP to 10-15 years). I have volunteered to

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-04 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andreas Pettersson wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is the most common interaction you have with it?

[RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates if and

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 7. Same as question 6 but for your answer on question 3? This should read: 7. If the new system corrected the worst aspect of the current system but broke the best aspect of it would you use the new system? - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread cpghost
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:19:15 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Please don't cross-post from questions@ to stable@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. What is the single best aspect of the current system? That you can add custom patches to the csup-ped

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Reko Turja
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:19:15 +0200, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? The form follows function of the whole FreeBSD kernel/userland and ports. Licensing ;) 2.

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:19:15AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? Yes. (i.e., mu) 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is the most common

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: [Repost from [EMAIL PROTECTED] As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates if and when needed vary

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is the most common interaction you have with it? Portupgrade a few times a