Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:46:10 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?xYF1a2FzeiBXxIVzaWtvd3NraQ==?= <lukasz@wasikowski.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you (for making the ports less boring). Message-ID: <4E7247F2.7080207@wasikowski.net> In-Reply-To: <20110915180815.GA46983@guilt.hydra> References: <1315864556.1747.103.camel@xenon> <20110912190558.641a3219@seibercom.net> <20110912230943.GD33455@guilt.hydra> <4E6E99BC.4050909@missouri.edu> <1315905051.1747.208.camel@xenon> <4E6F8A50.9060205@gmx.de> <1315942042.1747.258.camel@xenon> <4E6FD71D.9010207@gmx.de> <20110914181553.f6d31b0f.cjr@cruwe.de> <4E722F3F.3030606@wasikowski.net> <20110915180815.GA46983@guilt.hydra>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 W dniu 2011-09-15 20:08, Chad Perrin pisze: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 07:00:47PM +0200, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote: >> W dniu 2011-09-14 18:15, Christopher J. Ruwe pisze: >>> >>> Came as Gentoo user, abandoned Gentoo because of to many quirks >>> with updating packages (ebuilds). From my perspective, the >>> situation is better here (FreeBSD). >> >> Really? I've been using FreeBSD for over 10 years now, Gentoo for >> half of that time and I can surely say that Gentoo's portage is >> much better than FreeBSD's ports. > > There are some nice things that portage does, and my experience > with Gentoo is a few years out of date by now, but I remember one > difference that made software management on FreeBSD much better > than on Gentoo: > > If there was something broken with a FreeBSD port (a relative > rarity), it would fail to install, leaving me with the older > version. If there was something wrong with a Gentoo port, I'd end > up with a broken install. That's true. But I've got probably less then 5 situations when Gentoo port broke that way. Overall experience of every day portage use is just plain better. I hope for some changes in FreeBSD's ports system, we know where to look for some good ideas. - -- best regards Lukasz Wasikowski -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5yR/IACgkQXlaUxx+udUXOKACfTusKK6NZ3NRvH2TPY6iVGGI7 cjkAnRYKjy5mqLROarl8AGN32467NlGi =UhL1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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