From: Matthias Kilian (kilioutback.escape.de)
Date: Tue Aug 17 2004 - 00:32:19 CDT

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On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:52:19PM -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> >BTW: what's more helpful/important for the release: testing (prebuild)
> >packages or building and testing ports?
>
> Testing packages. The porters know that the build works (otherwise there
> would be no packages) and the developers know the ports framework is good
> (otherwise there would be much consternation from the porters), so all
> that is left is for you to put on your end-user hat and make sure that all
> the packages you'd use work correctly. Shipping broken packages is a
> Very Bad Thing.

Thanks. I just asked because there were issues with MANZ=1 and MANPS=1
in some of the dependencies of the devel/happy port (IIRC). I'll try to
reproduce that if I find the time, but then, it isn't critical at all
for the release.

Ciao,
        Kili

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