Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:43:03 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com> Cc: christopher-ml@telting.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, utisoft@gmail.com Subject: Re: Port dependencies Message-ID: <20110403014303.GC18031@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <9BFF22F1-7559-4107-B149-94A79CA3ADB7@d3photography.com> References: <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <BANLkTinUz6DOMYhR7MHHtbMsK0UBNCwwBw@mail.gmail.com> <4d97ba5a.199K2FcyLXA6%2Bb5f%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <9BFF22F1-7559-4107-B149-94A79CA3ADB7@d3photography.com>
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On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:45:06PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > > 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. :) > seriously, this is why i want that debian+freebsd that was discussed recently. the kernel is ours and number one in the world. and the ports stuff is basically packages that more/less just-work. you can get the src =with= the pkg. . > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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