On Wed, August 17, 2005 11:26 am, Hiten Pandya said: > Another issue here, is that we have un-substantiated claims that FreeBSD > port maintainers will not accept patch files to make ports work on > DragonFly? I have yet to see any evidence on this matter.
I talked about something like that, though I didn't say "will not". I'm not ascribing any ill will to FreeBSD port maintainers; I am assuming that over time, especially as we get farther from our FreeBSD-4 roots, it's going to be harder to keep given ports working on FreeBSD 4, 5, 6, x86, amd64, and DragonFly too, for any given developer. It's a matter of time, not motive. > Can we not use ports or pkgsrc as our build part of the problem, and > produce packages that are understandable by APT* ? To steal a phrase...: +1 from me.
