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On Apr 2, 2011, at 7:07 PM, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2 April 2011 00:58, Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org> wrote:
>>> One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell.
>> 
>> I think you've misunderstood the term dependency hell [1]. Anyone
>> who has spent hours struggling with rpm ... would never dare to
>> even think of such terms when using the Ports Collection.
> 
> Dependency purgatory?

Dantency Inferno. :)