From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 3 15:10:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFF61065670 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:10:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy2-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy2-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.39.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38ED48FC14 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31831 invoked by uid 0); 3 Apr 2011 15:10:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 2011 15:10:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Zgtuns/5EE8lDhGXjLwL2hglBdkehpRh2reSjqJYhLdtJzM4J39AyOOuln3dLCFRjD7fVwYD0ZblenWEJ9H+EcaQiZrQVUQz4irt4XUL8wppP5znys5Rk1R58wOoBhiF; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6Owa-0005HV-2I for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:10:25 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:57:59 -0600 Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 08:57:59 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110403145759.GA92121@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <4d97ba5a.199K2FcyLXA6+b5f%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="huq684BweRXVnRxX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4d97ba5a.199K2FcyLXA6+b5f%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Port dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:10:26 -0000 --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 05:07:54PM -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Chris Rees wrote: > > On 2 April 2011 00:58, Chris Telting 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. >=20 > Dependency purgatory? I'd say it's something more like "dependency real-world". Purgatory would be Ubuntu, where installing something with Synaptic doesn't require you to track all the (recursive) dependencies yourself, but uninstalling Evolution can break the whole system because of the insanely inclusive dependency policies for packages. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk2YivcACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUtHwCgpiHKtwNeOwvW2R6U2ixv1Slf XwUAn2trLF68mJDrtqgnc/V/rUys6M7Z =+4Ws -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--