Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:03:20 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? Message-ID: <20000128110320.A63975@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001270958280.4470-100000@mail.telestream.com> <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com>
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On Thu 2000-01-27 (12:23), R Joseph Wright wrote: > I cannot agree here. I've had too many Error Code 1's while building > ports, and even a few kernel panics. I think the ports have a long way > to go. FreeBSD could use a better packaging system for the installation > of binaries for those of us who don't want to compile every program we > put on our systems. "pkg_add" is adequate, but not nearly as advanced > as rpm. I sure hope you send mail to ports@FreeBSD.org every single time you have problems. As to the package system - I agree. Ports, however, utterly overwhelm anything else available. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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