Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 20:50:31 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, bwoods2@uswest.net, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Subject: Re: kdelibs port broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002262049091.299-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000225195718.A17742@shadow.blackdawn.com>
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > If you're gonna use a port, use ports for its dependencies too. You'd be > stupid not to use the ports whenever you can. No one has ever provided > me a convincing reason why this is not true. Well when you want to keep multiple versions of kde or qt around.. and want to be able to remove them in one fell swoop.. and the "packing lists" aren't for sure known.. yes it helps to have its own directory. For a normal desktop user you're perhaps right. But not using the ports for some things does not make one stupid, as quite possibly there's a good reason behind it. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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