Hi,
I thought of telling a tale of woe about how I waited two years to upgrade to 8.0, and then libpng smashed the ports tree in the first week, and hurt me so bad... Instead, I'd like to appeal to the core team, because the problem is so obvious.
A naked o/s can't do much without applications. Ports are therefore critical to the success of FreeBSD. For a stable production environment, ports also need to be stable.
Ports are not stable. On the contrary, the ports tree is simply out of control.
Letting the hackers (traditional meaning) into the production code base is like letting the fox into the hen house.
I mean no disrespect to the people who labour there, but I can't think of a time in the last few years (probably since KDE and Gnome started) where the ports tree has not been causing me (semi-continuous) grief.
I don't want the latest features. I do want my systems to run reliably!
May we PLEASE have a stable version of ports that is not broken almost daily?!
--
Phil
I thought of telling a tale of woe about how I waited two years to upgrade to 8.0, and then libpng smashed the ports tree in the first week, and hurt me so bad... Instead, I'd like to appeal to the core team, because the problem is so obvious.
A naked o/s can't do much without applications. Ports are therefore critical to the success of FreeBSD. For a stable production environment, ports also need to be stable.
Ports are not stable. On the contrary, the ports tree is simply out of control.
Letting the hackers (traditional meaning) into the production code base is like letting the fox into the hen house.
I mean no disrespect to the people who labour there, but I can't think of a time in the last few years (probably since KDE and Gnome started) where the ports tree has not been causing me (semi-continuous) grief.
I don't want the latest features. I do want my systems to run reliably!
May we PLEASE have a stable version of ports that is not broken almost daily?!
--
Phil