From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 07:09:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522E716A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:09:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (chylonia.3miasto.net [213.192.74.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 143E943D41 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:09:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (wojtek@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i6J79S3r004004; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:09:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost)i6J79SCY004001; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:09:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) X-Authentication-Warning: chylonia.3miasto.net: wojtek owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:09:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar X-X-Sender: wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net To: Travis Poppe In-Reply-To: <20040719002221.21b6b9a3@maya.liquidx.org> Message-ID: <20040719090626.Q97752@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <20040719002221.21b6b9a3@maya.liquidx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Our package system: "Fundamentally Flawed" - A Linux User. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:09:32 -0000 > 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.