Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:35:29 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading through packages: an experience. Message-ID: <4878C131.7060600@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080712130415.GA97957@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20080712130415.GA97957@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Michel Talon wrote: > Hello, > > Since KDE recently appeared in the Latest prebuilt packages Well, it's always been there, except when it could not be built. > Now the problems. They come from the fact that the Latest packages are > not always coherent between themselves or with the libraries in > FreeBSD-7.0. No, they are. In fact this is a key design feature, and the same reason why sometimes certain packages do not appear on the FTP site (if they did appear they would be necessarily *out* of sync). Similarly they are always built against recent versions of -STABLE, by design. Glad to hear your experience was generally positive though. Kris
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