BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports

Tom Evans tevans.uk at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 4 17:17:15 UTC 2013


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, the question of what needs to be a class 1 port may prove to be
> the bikeshed to end all bikesheds! (I think we need Python, Perl, JPEG,
> PNG, GPG, BIND and bright yellow!) And we need a reasonable mechanism to
> update this list as the popularity of various tools does change.

Woah, this is missing most of what Alfred was saying. There should be
no "class 1 ports", and if jpeg went in base, it should be because
base requires and uses it, not because it is useful to 3rd party
software in base. The base jpeg *would not* even be visible to
ports/3rd party software by default, only to base and things
especially configured to use base.

Cheers

Tom


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