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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:42:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, asmodai@wxs.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904081140310.259-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904081223480.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:

> When Satoshi builds stuff, it's in a real clean environment, but in
> fact, all the gnome and kde ports are extraordinarly sensitive to
> stuff from older ports hanging around.  That's why folks are wary of
> upgrading those guys.

That's news to me.  Perhaps the ports are poorly designed or whathaveyou,
but I can't imagine what "older ports" the kde ports are so sensitive to.
Then of course, I tend to install from the CVS tree into /usr/local/kde...

> The gnome stuff is really neat, else I'd never even bother.

Yup.  Nothing like a load of core dumps in your home directory to make
one's day :)

- alex



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