Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:11:57 -0600 From: Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux with a ports collection Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020316160233.01a698a8@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <3C93BA80.5D1A9F46@pythonemproject.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203161312370.4170-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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I think I must be the only FreeBSD user in the world who has never successfully installed a port. (I use packages with pretty good success though.) That used to be one of my biggest complaints with FreeBSD in my early days with it--broken packages that broke dependency chains in other packages. But they still worked better for me than ports. Fortunately, packages seem to work pretty well nowadays, so I never have to hear another port laughing at me with its cackling error messages any more. :-) << Chip Morton >> At 03:34 PM 3/16/2002, rob wrote: >Right. We've got one team of people who work mostly on ports. It would >take some time to build that up. SuSE has a pretty good rpm based >system called Yast. I've used it before a few years ago. Still, I >would always run into situations where I'd update a package, which then >needed later libraries, and I'd find that 20 other packages then >wouldn't run. Rob. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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