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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:19:25 +0200
From:      Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Not an easy install
Message-ID:  <200603270119.28109.benlutz@datacomm.ch>
In-Reply-To: <4425611B.8030506@daleco.biz>
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On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Installer, yes.  "good system for installing programs" ... some would
> differ.  Ease of use isn't the only thing that FreeBSD ports offers,
> and I'm not sure that PCBSD has that figured out; obviously, that's
> open for discussion.  Seems to me, and some others, that PCBSD's
> implementation of 3rd party software may get its users in the same
> sort of "libc hell" that many Linux users find themselves in someplace
> down the road.

I tried PC-BSD a couple of weeks ago. What they seem to do is include all t=
he=20
necessary libs with a program, and install each program into a dedicated=20
library. So while there is bloat, a library hell there shouldn't be.

Cheers
Benjamin

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