freebsd stable - Sep 2014 - [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

+--On 2 septembre 2014 13:47:32 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
<michelle at sorbs.net> wrote:
| Marcus von Appen wrote:
|> Alban Hertroys <haramrae at gmail.com>:
|> 
|>> 
|>> I can totally understand that at some point it starts to get
|>> impossible to maintain two separate packaging systems and I understand
|>> that you think 2 years is enough time to shake things out, but
|>> software vendors aren't that quick. For many, 2 years is a short
time.
|>> 
|> 
|> It also should be noted that everyone had enough time to raise those
|> issues
|> in the time between tthe announcement and now. No one did. Now that it is
|> gone, they are brought up, while they should have been long time ago
|> instead. It can't work that way.
|> 
|> My 2 cents in this discussion :-).
| 
| Actually I brought it up as soon as I found the EOL was a deadline for
| breaking pkg_* tools, was told, "too late now" - that was more than
2
| weeks ago, less than 2 months ago (forget the date) ... I'm happy with
| an EOL and working to upgrade everything, I'm not happy that the EOL was
| not actually an EOL and it was actually a deadline.

I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's *End Of
Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold

Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's
*End Of
> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.
>
>   
Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work anymore...

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/

+--On 3 septembre 2014 16:36:29 +0200 Michelle Sullivan
<michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
| Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> I still don't see what you have to say about what EOL mean, it's
*End Of
|> Life* meaning after, it is dead, and won't exist any more.
|> 
|>   
| Ahh so all those Windows XP servers are dead and don't work anymore...

Not at all, but you don't update them any more.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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