From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 12:34:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.vsl.cua.edu (mail.vsl.cua.edu [136.242.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8582B37B93E for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julianz@vsl.cua.edu) Received: from localhost (julianz@localhost) by gateway.vsl.cua.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA03124; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:37:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from julianz@vsl.cua.edu) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:37:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Julian Zottl To: kyates@wspice.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Before you bash an OS's way of keeping software up-to-date, you should really learn more about the whole process. In my 8 years of using FreeBSD, I have encountered ONE broken port. Maybe you didn't CVSUP correct, I don't know, but everything works as it should and great care is taken to make sure that it is. BTW, have you ever heard of making something with NO_X11?! RPM is shat compared to CVS. What do you find so hard about going into a directory and typing "make install"? Julian Zottl System Administrator, Vitreous State Laboratory (202)319-5522 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message