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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[moved to -chat and out of -questions] 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 *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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