From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 18: 2:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930B137B69C for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@nwu.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA25452 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:02:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (dika-14-028130.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.130]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xmaa25313; Tue, 25 Apr 00 20:01:42 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA88067 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:44:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:44:37 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!? Message-ID: <20000425174437.A87170@localhost.localdomain> References: <3905F045.9060804@wspice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3905F045.9060804@wspice.com>; from kyates@wspice.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:21:41PM -0500 X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:21:41PM -0500, Kristoph Yates wrote: > Any info would be appreciated.  Please respond via email as I am not > subscribed to the list. ---end quoted text--- Frankly, I think the ports is one of the best, and easiest, things about BSD. I find them quite easy to install: dependencies work very well. I don't think this is necessarily the case with rpms, right? Yes, ports do get broken, but usually if you post a message as to what's going on, it's fixed rather quickly. My only complaint is that I've got a modem, so downloading is slow. But that's not a BSD problem. -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message