Re: FreeBSD ports community is broken
- In reply to: Felix Palmen : "Re: Re: FreeBSD ports community is broken"
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:45:47 UTC
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:16:33 +0100 Felix Palmen <zirias@freebsd.org> wrote: > * Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> [20240218 17:49]: > > [a lot about automotive regulations] > > That's a nice example how comparisons of entirely different domains > almost always go completely wrong. > > To start with, cars (and especially individual parts) typically aren't > subject to consumer customizations, and if they are, it's way outside > the manufacturer's responsibility. Here, we were talking about > breakage that only happened when you customized your port builds. We > aren't talking about security-relevant breakage either. A lot of words instead of a simple recognition of a mistake. > As explained in the PR as well, of course we add (temporary) > workarounds to *individual* ports when it seems necessary. We > certainly don't add workarounds to the framework itself unless it's > perfectly clear there will be no other way. Not even considering yet > that just fiddling with CFLAGS has the potential to break a lot of > other things when done globally. > > All I have left to say is seeing a toxic thread like this is a very > frustrating experience. So, I'll now move on to something else. > This is an erroneous policy leading to the loss of trust and users. Ports should work, the rest is not important.