From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 16 14:28: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from threespace.com (server44.aitcom.net [208.234.0.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D7D37B432 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from vwinxp.threespace.com (ip68-11-176-217.br.no.cox.net [68.11.176.217]) by threespace.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA28500 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:32:15 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020316160233.01a698a8@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:11:57 -0600 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Chip Morton Subject: Re: Linux with a ports collection In-Reply-To: <3C93BA80.5D1A9F46@pythonemproject.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think I must be the only FreeBSD user in the world who has never successfully installed a port. (I use packages with pretty good success though.) That used to be one of my biggest complaints with FreeBSD in my early days with it--broken packages that broke dependency chains in other packages. But they still worked better for me than ports. Fortunately, packages seem to work pretty well nowadays, so I never have to hear another port laughing at me with its cackling error messages any more. :-) << Chip Morton >> At 03:34 PM 3/16/2002, rob wrote: >Right. We've got one team of people who work mostly on ports. It would >take some time to build that up. SuSE has a pretty good rpm based >system called Yast. I've used it before a few years ago. Still, I >would always run into situations where I'd update a package, which then >needed later libraries, and I'd find that 20 other packages then >wouldn't run. Rob. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message