On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:

> But, it is presumed that NetBSD does not shun newbies, 
> yes? In fact, I had thought that NetBSD sought to recruit 
> newbies. 

Everyone is a newbie at sometime or another. I am often amazed when I see
some Unix guru or well-known BSD developer ask novice questions -- just to
show that experts aren't experts in everything.

> I don't ask that everything work. But I do want to know 
> beforehand what works and what doesn't. I would gladly 
> avoid what is known to not work. I would glady use 
> instead something which works. But it is by no means 
> unreasonable to want to know if it works or not.

Please use send-pr to document anything you know to be broken. A note
could be appended to the pkgsrc/x11/kde2/pkg/DESCR or
pkgsrc/x11/kdelibs2/pkg/DESCR file for example; for example:

 Kmail appears to be broken; see PR #12345.

And maybe a TODO file can be placed at
pkgsrc/pkgtools/kdelibs2/files/TODO.

> take personal offense at the slightest criticsm. I shall 
> never be one of these. Nor, I am glad to say, have I met 
> many on the mailing lists for NetBSD. Only one so far...

One of the reasons I started using NetBSD a couple years ago was because
the mailing lists are quite friendly and helpful.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/