Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:09:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: Travis Poppe <tlp@LiquidX.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Our package system: "Fundamentally Flawed" - A Linux User. Message-ID: <20040719090626.Q97752@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <20040719002221.21b6b9a3@maya.liquidx.org> References: <20040719002221.21b6b9a3@maya.liquidx.org>
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> a different library name) like it should, pkg_add only gives a warning and an > assumption that the install went well. > > Now, the user goes to run the package and gets a big fat error: libintl.so.X > not found. package 0.13 should be compatible with 0.12 or should has name 1.* anyway - in 99.99% times ln -s libintl.so.X libintl.so.Y where Y is required number works :) > > For a user like myself, this is no problem. I can recognize the error and figure > out how to fix it manually. For a user considering switching to FreeBSD from > Linux, this is considered a "fundamental flaw" in our package system and may > lead to a very annoying flame war. Can this be fixed? Why hasn't it been fixed? war requires 2 sides to fight. simplest way to avoid is ignore them. no one forces linux user to go to FreeBSD or otherBSD. 2 years ago mostly because linux started "the only right" solution and to be "better than windows" i switched to NetBSD. and found that this said to be worse *BSD are actually better.
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