From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 3:23: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFB514E2E for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 03:23:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12E7JI-000GhM-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:03:20 +0200 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:03:20 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? Message-ID: <20000128110320.A63975@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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