Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/02/2011 04:35, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > I think you're missing the point a little. > > > > The point is, you have to keep in mind how comfortable people feel > > about things, and progress sometimes makes people uncomfortable. I > > think you should leave these changes bake for a while and let people > > get comfortable with the changing status quo. > > The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no > matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature. > > This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the > majority view seems to lean heavily towards "If I use it, it must be the > default and/or in the base" rather than seeing ports as part of the > overall operating SYSTEM. BSD is more conservative. More value given to stability of availability of interfaces & tools etc, More Long term professionals. Doug's attempting to force working FreeBSD ports such as procmail to be discarded is deplorable. Doug should stop coercing FreeBSD toward a Linux model, & move himself to Linux. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.Received on Sun Dec 11 2011 - 13:14:40 UTC
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