FreeBSD Foundation Flounders on 15 with Rust, pkgbase, and KDE

cracauer@ said:
The -current mailing list will serve this purpose. You reach the right people and it is open to anyone.

There are no secret/non-public lists where technical discussions like this are supposed to happen.
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Yep I know; I try to push the mailing lists when appropriate here, but how many posters here are subscribed/post to those mailing lists?
 
tembun said:
There are thousands of people out there who are running Linux distributions and still hoping that one day they will finally get rid of systemd. In fact, one day, they may, but their distribution never will.
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You had to mention systemd. My "most favorite thing in the world to hate because it was a really bad idea" :)
 
There's also the -arch mailing list, open to everyone.

But it is relatively low traffic and overshadowed by -current. That is a result of "(working) code wins". It isn't much use to draw up theoretical subsystems if nobody implements them. The coders hang out on -current.
 
mer said:
Yep I know; I try to push the mailing lists when appropriate here, but how many posters here are subscribed/post to those mailing lists?
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I read all FreeBSD mailing lists. The trick is not to let them go into your main mailbox but filter them into sections that you read when you are ready for it.

Myself I use a mail-to-news gateway, feed them into inn and use the usenet reader nn for reading. It is the most efficient way that I found to deal with larger volumes of messages. I recently started a thread here looking for a more "pure email" solution with similar efficiency, but only GNUS is a candidate.
 
RetroComputingCollector said:
Because it is finally being rolled out. This is our last chance to stop it before it gets baked in.
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lol ...gothcha!

Have you tested it and sent something to the mailing list? 10,000 foot overview: the "linux feelings" aside, what's the difference if pkgbase or freebsd-update breaks something (you'll still be able to fix it)? NOTE: I havent use pkgbase.
 
JohnK said:
Have you tested it and sent something to the mailing list? 10,000 foot overview: the "linux feelings" aside, what's the difference if pkgbase or freebsd-update breaks something (you'll still be able to fix it)? NOTE: I havent use pkgbase.
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Well, one difference that I think likely applies (I didn't try pkgbase, so I have to be careful here): I really like that no matter how hard I screw up a FreeBSD system I can just untar base.tgz and kernel.tgz (sans /etc) and have something working that can compile or pkg-install things. I imagine this is lost with pkgbase.
 
cracauer@ said:
Well, one difference that I think likely applies (I didn't try pkgbase, so I have to be careful here): I really like that no matter how hard I screw up a FreeBSD system I can just untar base.tgz and kernel.tgz (sans /etc) and have something working that can compile or pkg-install things. I imagine this is lost with pkgbase.
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Would boot environments work in that case? I ask that because I remember when I did a rm -r / and just put the install CD back in (I haven't messed up my system like that in a while, but I can defiantly appreciate the thought :) !!).
 
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