Re: Why do packages disappear?

Hi, Richard

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:39:01 +0900,
Richard Childers wrote:
> 
> 
> I was using ungoogled-chromium and I had 60+ tabs that I can now not get 
> back because ungoogled-chromium has been withdrawn from circulation.
> 
> 
> why are these packages appearing and disappearing? If it's a package, 
> it's supposed to be good enough to public use. The experimental stuff is 
> supposed to stay in the ports section, not be promoted to packages.
> 
> 
> FreeBSD used to hold itself to a higher standard than Linux; it stood 
> for STABILITY. Linux stood for EXPERIMENTATION.
> 
> 
> What happened? Is FreeBSD being run by college kids now?
> 
> 
> The quality of FreeBSD needs to be detached from the class projects 
> you're working on to graduate. That's what Linux is for, in my opinion.

If you are not reliable FreeBSD package clusters, you
should be made packages with
yourself. www/ungoogled-chromium (117.0.5938.149_1) has been
made with my machine yesterday [1].

> FreeBSD user since 1994.

FreeBSD user since 1993 ;-)

[1] ftp://ftp.truefc.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/freebsd/amd64/amd64/15.0C/9b03a5de73d4/9ce8c29b90c7/All/

---
Kazuhiko Kiriyama