From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 11 17:11:10 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BB133F for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:11:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net) Received: from mail33c50.megamailservers.eu (mail224c50.megamailservers.eu [91.136.10.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9142F24C1 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:11:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Authenticated-User: ralf.mardorf.alice-dsl.net Received: from [85.182.16.204] (e182016204.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.182.16.204]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail33c50.megamailservers.eu (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id r9BGw8jN025529 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:58:11 +0000 Message-ID: <1381510689.1150.91.camel@archlinux> Subject: Re: Q: Updating a port (math:asymptote) From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:58:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87vc13aio7.fsf@syk.fi> References: <87vc13aio7.fsf@syk.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.0 cv=fcYaPTsF c=1 sm=1 a=htcXIfEhmgS/rKmRhgCSxQ==:17 a=QEduuKYDrqcA:10 a=ALKwz0t7uJUA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=rsIYsMhsAAAA:8 a=-chUnWXDb0MA:10 a=xNf9USuDAAAA:8 a=WatJ-3cEGWoGkuZJsG8A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=htcXIfEhmgS/rKmRhgCSxQ==:117 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020204.52582E23.011A, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:11:10 -0000 On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 19:14 +0300, Jarmo Hurri wrote: > I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the > timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called > asymptote quite heavily in my work. From the ports page I noticed that > the ports version is approximately 14 months old: I guess that if software should depend on many other software, you can't get latest software versions working on FreeBSD that easy, if at all. Have you tested Debian's FreeBSD port? Debian GNU/kFreeBSD perhaps does provide a more current user space. https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD