Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:43:23 +0100 From: Martin Braun <yellowgoldmine@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is really great.. BUT.. Message-ID: <CAFNm86RrGneTMKUuSeVt165Oh2CRtGSV7vtpjxtvOXP_JFj7XA@mail.gmail.com>
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> Because we're in a state of transition at the moment. We have not yet > completely obsoleted the old pkg_tools (soon though...), so there are > changes to the ports tree we cannot make just yet. pkg(8) itself is > right now in the process of growing a much more sophisticated solver, > which will mean much more intelligence about constructing dependency > trees based on the capabilities and requirements of the available > packages, rather than the RUN_DEPENDS settings pulled from the ports tree. > > Yes, it's frustrating at the moment since we're in a half-way house > between the old-style ports and the regime where binary packages > basically 'just work' for the vast majority of users. (It's likely that > there will always be people who want odd combinations of options who > will be best advised to compile their own, but ideally they should be > few and far between.) > > The best user experience at the moment seems to be for people building > packages using poudriere (or similar) and running their own repo to > distribute them. But that's just at the moment, and could well change > pretty soon. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Thanks! I think I'm gonna try Debian kFreeBSD - maybe I get the best of both - until then atleast!
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