tomaz.borstnar wrote @ Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:20:30 +0200: > Andreas Hauser wrote:
> > Well, currently ports are still better than pkgsrc. > Ports have warm feeling for us, because we use them for so long, not because > they are generally best there. Mine is a technical standpoint. Yours is a rethorical NOP. > > And the way pkgsrc is > > being forced upon us, politically instead of technically, will fail. > It is a fact of life that FreeBSD wont adopt ports for other projects so this > project would always need to play > catch-the-ports game like it did in the past. With pkgsrc you have other > people supporting this project as well and > generally things should only improve with time because of that. One can use a SCM like svk to help keep a copy of the ports repo in sync. Then one can modify the copy as much as one wants. Andy
