BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> You are correct. I did not understand Alfred's proposal correctly.  Of
course, I can see several issues with that, as well, but it' a lot more
tractable than a set of "baseline" ports.

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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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