From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 3 01:43:04 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423091065672 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 01:43:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D928FC12 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 01:43:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7D02EE80457; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:43:03 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Ryan Coleman Message-ID: <20110403014303.GC18031@thought.org> References: <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <4d97ba5a.199K2FcyLXA6+b5f%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <9BFF22F1-7559-4107-B149-94A79CA3ADB7@d3photography.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9BFF22F1-7559-4107-B149-94A79CA3ADB7@d3photography.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24++ years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: christopher-ml@telting.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, utisoft@gmail.com Subject: Re: Port dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:43:04 -0000 On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:45:06PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > > On Apr 2, 2011, at 7:07 PM, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Chris Rees wrote: > >> On 2 April 2011 00:58, Chris Telting wrote: > >>> One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell. > >> > >> I think you've misunderstood the term dependency hell [1]. Anyone > >> who has spent hours struggling with rpm ... would never dare to > >> even think of such terms when using the Ports Collection. > > > > Dependency purgatory? > > Dantency Inferno. :) > seriously, this is why i want that debian+freebsd that was discussed recently. the kernel is ours and number one in the world. and the ports stuff is basically packages that more/less just-work. you can get the src =with= the pkg. . > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org