Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:24:28 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools Message-ID: <201402032124.s13LOS4r042824@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:18:52 GMT." <20140203181852.GA30411@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> be beneficial in a very short amount of time. Even if you prefer to > compile from source, I use source, rarely if ever use packages, (except pkg_delete to remove old broken dependencies). No opinion which scrips are better. > you will still reap the benefits of the modern > packaging system. In 10.0 FreeBSD `reaped the benefit` of a default new horrible registry that smells like Microsoft with quasi binary local.sqlite needing special tools. (Yes I know there's an export function.) For 2 decade we've poured scorn on Microsoft & its opaque easily damaged hard to access registry, & lauded how with FreeBSD we can examine & manipulate & repair our text based equivalent with any number of personal choice text tools, & now FreeSBD is burdened by this horrible Microsoft style registry. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Interleave replies below like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative.
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