Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:21:41 -0500 From: Kristoph Yates <kyates@wspice.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!? Message-ID: <3905F045.9060804@wspice.com>
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Hi, That is my question. It seems the idea behind ports is trapped in the 70's. They hardly work and many times get errors about "file not found" or something equally annoying.. so I have to go in and screw with it "by hand" which is no problem for me.. but the newbies are another story. Once I ran make lynx and it said I had to have X11 installed. What a crock.. another fine example is openssl ... It wants the useless RSAREF crap. What a crock! What does Satoshi Asami have to say about the disorganization of the ports collection? When will FreeBSD come up with something more reliable? Yes, I cvsup'd the latest ports as of about a week ago. The only reason I would like to see ports be more reliable is because I have lots-o-people that want to run *nix.. so I recommend to them FreeBSD. If ports were more reliable, I would spend less time on the phone/net helping people install stuff on their FreeBSD boxes. So far, the easiest solution is to tell them to try Linux. rpm --install blahblahblah seems to work better for newbies than depending on the ports and these folks are pretty brainless when it comes to installing things "by hand ", the "old fashioned way". Any info would be appreciated. Please respond via email as I am not subscribed to the list. thanks, kyates@wspice.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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