Re: FreeBSD ports

[中井 幸博 <nakai internetsolutions co jp>]

> > Yes, but wouldn't it be nice if GNOME compile out of the box on Linux,
> > NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD?
> >
> > I once heard someone mention here:  If it doesn't compile out of the box
> > on another free unix (other than linux), its a problem of ours.
> 
> Correct. If it doesn't compile out of the box on another free unix,
> it is a problem of ours.
> 
> Well, like with SRPMS, you _can_ use patches in the *BSD ports collections,
> yes - but they also contain thinks like comments and a file list, and I
> think this is up to the *BSD maintainers.
> 
> However, we have to make sure that you can use the unchanged sources in
> the ports and they they do not need to contain any patches. This was my
> idea.
> 
> Martin

Yes, the FreeBSD ports for GNOME have many wasteful patches (but it
needs).
And we need to make them again and again each time GNOME released :-)
When the GNOME project itself consider about each *BSD, it is very
helpful.

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Yukihiro Nakai