From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:44:08 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > 5) I think FreeBSD's ports and similar huge-source-tree approaches > didn't work out as well Linux developers contributing their changes > upstream. > I think you confuse what ports was supposed to do. It was supposed to be "make these patches NOW to make the software available to users" paired with "submit the patches upstream to ease future support burdens". But the latter didn't happen often enough at times, especially as people moved on from the FreeBSD project and complex software became unsupported. It's really no different than what all the distributions have to do on Linux, but had a different bias for forcing the question than FreeBSD did in the early days. That's largely changed, and has mostly worked out.... The bigger issue with 'large trees' is that there was no convenient, binary packaged way to subset. Having everything in one tree avoids much of the version chasing that you have with Linux packages that the package set maintainers have to grapple with... Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: