Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:58:51 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine Message-ID: <4266ECBB.6000703@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050420170705.06dc6050@localhost> References: <20050419043330.GA92736@xor.obsecurity.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050419203347.05bed918@localhost> <20050420120120.9D06.REES@ddcom.co.jp> <6.2.1.2.2.20050420170705.06dc6050@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: >At 09:16 PM 4/19/2005, Joel wrote: > > >>Oh? Well, okay, MSWxp sp2 is not what I would call professionally >>crafted software. >> >> > >They're professionals; they're just not always competent professionals. >But they're light years ahead of FreeBSD on the issue of maintainability. >With FreeBSD, the answer is almost always to wipe the system clean and >rebuild from scratch. > > Not in my experience. More oft than not, it's FreeBSD I "fix" and that other OS I "flatten". But then, maybe we work in different environments, although I'm betting my experience is more common than yours; but then again, we're way OT and about to cross a troll bridge, aren't we? Kevin Kinsey
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