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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:54:24 -0700
From:      joe <joe@dubium.com>
To:        SweeTLeaF <SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Bad experience
Message-ID:  <200209291954.24574.joe@dubium.com>
In-Reply-To: <1055310205.20020929172110@myrealbox.com>
References:  <1055310205.20020929172110@myrealbox.com>

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Please don't feed the troll.

-Joe

On September 29, 2002 03:21 pm, SweeTLeaF wrote:
> Hello ,
>
>   What is the issue with Freebsd currently? I am trying to move from
>   Open to Free and i have to say the experience to date is
>   undesirable.....to say the least. I have tried several different
>   releases this week and everyone has had issues but the most
>   frustrating is the packages. The packages are not there, pkg_add
>   wont work with the format when they are there ex. .tbz, packages
> not installing properly ie. not installing their deps and broken
> links and pipes and i mean the latter with regards to the .tgz format
> which is suppose to work. They did not have any packages for the
> release i am currently using ...trying to use (4.7rc2) so i was told
> to use the 4-stable packages. Today i took a peek @ the 4-stable and
> they appear to be missing just a directory link which gives ./dir not
> there errors when trying to access and.... they are once again in the
> damn .tgz format which does not work. This is very
>   frustrating and time consuming. I truly hope that the project is
> not normally this sloppy and undocumented, as i continue to look
> forward to my initial goal.



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Joe
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We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds...
Will our inward power of resistance 
be strong enough for us to find our way back?
                                       - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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