Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:10:15 +0100 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Dennis Glatting <freebsd@pki2.com> Cc: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth? Message-ID: <fu8q-mnbc-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1512352031.73246.1.camel@pki2.com> (Dennis Glatting's message of "Sun, 03 Dec 2017 17:47:11 -0800") References: <CAN6yY1ujLFdKpuG4Rxz%2Bfww9gAxTBaY14iCB7RFTkh-oVB1%2B9A@mail.gmail.com> <BN6PR2001MB1730A16025654AB7C452111B80390@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <CAOc73CD9VnLKv8-jBNW1Uj05LnEFh6kkZFKNAxp-EG9YO_AUxA@mail.gmail.com> <1512211220.79413.1.camel@yandex.com> <BN6PR2001MB17309152A0FC3776781AB53B803E0@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <20171202184356.GA980@lonesome.com> <b0e44e55-5fc9-af2a-22c8-bfa0d30c866f@columbus.rr.com> <20800E88-36EC-49C4-A281-EA6BAB212DBF@adamw.org> <048e2faf-873e-beb5-35fe-ad8f3f8ea5be@columbus.rr.com> <9BFBB00F-0786-4B92-A564-EABD0179BD93@adamw.org> <CAHEMsqbUVcaC_P5%2BzC-cb9uB8TFdgWZZCCQ%2Bd0KfjW0fEADe1A@mail.gmail.com> <1512352031.73246.1.camel@pki2.com>
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Dennis Glatting <freebsd@pki2.com> writes: > 1) I am tired of port breakage. I am past tired of being told to read > UPDATEs when UPDATEs often has limited information, including install > conflicts. > > 2) "Error 70" on installs with no indication of where the error was > incurred and thus requiring me to make with debug flags and then dig > deep is past annoying. [...] > Further: > > 1) Under FreeBSD I do not do binaries, rather I do source and I do > source for reasons. Under Linux, source is troublesome. I'm curious what are those "reasons" that don't affect Linux. Those may be valid FreeBSD shortcomings unlike what you've listed above which is mainly about source vs. binary packages.
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