From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 18:46:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0011065677 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:46:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lukasz@wasikowski.net) Received: from bijou.wasikowski.net (bijou.wasikowski.net [IPv6:2001:808:10f::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EDB8FC17 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bijou.wasikowski.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bijou.wasikowski.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4545C06F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:46:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at wasikowski.net Received: from bijou.wasikowski.net ([127.0.0.1]) by bijou.wasikowski.net (bijou.wasikowski.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5Rj1nKuWLLEj for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:46:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.168.2] (leeloo.unixgroup.pl [62.121.126.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bijou.wasikowski.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 695EA5C063 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:46:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4E7247F2.7080207@wasikowski.net> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:46:10 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?xYF1a2FzeiBXxIVzaWtvd3NraQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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> In-Reply-To: <20110915180815.GA46983@guilt.hydra> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Thank you (for making the ports less boring). X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:46:17 -0000 -----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-----