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Date:      Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:22:27 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
Cc:        "'Nate'" <publisher@laptop.ompages.com>, gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907091119170.11152-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF6FDAE9@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>

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On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:

> This, IMHO, is a great idea!!! I have been playing with FreeBSD for
> some months now. And the kernel Kicks Ass!!! It just 'feels' better
> too. But the package installation and management is terrible. It took
> me at least 3 weeks to figure it out.

Note I've never used Debian (only ever RH Linux for a bit), but why is

	cd /usr/ports/some_port_dir/some_port
	make install clean

hard to figure out?  Did you read the handbook?  Have you tried using pib?
(Ports Index Browser - /usr/ports/sysutils/pib)

That said, there is a new, still in development, package system in the
works.  

Brett
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