On 06/02/13 07:32, John Marino wrote:
The bigger question, of course, is *why* pkgsrc users are likely to build from source? Could it be that they had lots of issues with that in the past? Who wouldn't want something fast and quick if it were trustworthy? The "indication" alone is telling.
My point was, more generally, that one shouldn't read too much into the numbers. To play the contrarian to your point, solely for the purpose of further showing why it is silly to read too much into the numbers, it could just as easily be speculated that: a) people are initially testing dports, and it's faster to do so with binaries For 'ports like' platforms, I often 'bootstrap' a platform with binaries and then rebuild from source 'on the flipside' later on once I get a build environment setup, and this is just 1 use case. b) only 'neophyte' users use binary packages, and since dports has been put forth as quasi-offical-in-beta in various announcments, any such users are much more likely to use dports and other various spurious and presupposed self-gratifying foregone conclusions. I prefer to build from source, no matter what, period, and, while not necessarily the most common type of user, am not alone in this method. Again - my point is not that package system A or B is better, but that the ratio could be explained by several factors, and so reading into the numbers is not well advised, in any pro/con/neutral direction, and so any speculation given the data as presented is just that. Cheers, - Chris
