Bla bla bla, *plaign*, bla bla bla…
Published July 22nd, 2008 in Ports, Rant, X.orgIt’s been a while since Mr Beranger didn’t mention what he could call the FreeBSD/X.org incident. Well, we can reset the counter [link].
The poor thing mentioned (again) being driven away from the FreeBSD Project because of two developers who shall remain nameless (one of them being myself), who dared calling him an idiot. Well, I will repeat myself: clueless and whining person == idiot.
Should you not have been an idiot, you would have admitted that your understanding of how ports and packages work was wrong and you would have just said that it was simply not a good match for your needs. There’s plenty of choice, shop around, as you’re already doing.
Apart from that, there are loads of people using patched releases (via freebsd-update(1), which you also criticized, for various utterly wrong reasons, as pointed out by Colin Percival, the maintainer of the tool) with what I’ll call stable packages (which is actually latest packages built on FreeBSD-STABLE, as opposed to current packages which are built against FreeBSD-CURRENT).
6 Responses to “Bla bla bla, *plaign*, bla bla bla…”
- 1 Trackback on Jul 22nd, 2008 at 10:46 am
I am annoyed that you linked to that; I spent far too long reading that page even after concluding that he knows nothing about Solaris (or pens, apparently) either. If he produces that amount of crap every week, I suggest you just unsubscribe and forget he exists too.
> “you would have admitted that your understanding of how ports and packages work was wrong”
Maybe yes, but in this case the ports system has a real problem in its design…
I don’t defend Beranger but you should avoid permanent aggressiveness, it does not give a good image of people from FreeBSD, maybe even of the BSD world as a whole…
It is not a design issue, it’s a decision that has been made not to support multiple branches for ports. It’s not a matter of being lazy or anything, it’s about lack of manpower.
I have tried to explain things nicely but he won’t listen. He obviously knows better. He’s getting high on slagging the opensource community (not even trying to make it better), so I don’t think it’s unfair of me writing a short comment once in a while (actually working on something).
I am going to unsubscribe from his blog anyway. There used to be some interesting posts once in a while, now it’s just utter bullshit.
> “it’s about lack of manpower.”
OK, if you want… but I’m sorry, I have perhaps not followed the whole story but the Firefox ‘thing’ remains something incredible and something that should not happen in an OS!
Most of the time he flames things he doesn’t understand, he sometimes reminds me to the Jem Report.