From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Apr 23 18:37:39 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418E0B1AB17 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:37:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22b.google.com (mail-wm0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD44B1CA5 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:37:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id v188so54658475wme.1 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:37:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=yeKywRF4wyjzyer6QZt2gvEjM6m1c7EBVaSuYJ8YsEA=; b=Nqgsulm7c6ZBX8SJAjY5lytKzNGb6lafMjOZ91L4e6jrSkvp5CwT7pWArJmmRU5EwM 6o9R4cTvZmBHoxgaR7WhViCLfKc5OqGgqs7jE6MamQ0+xpjW13hobJJQGO3AMQG5lMeG FsNmB7hiHxBmBocRV6BZqDY9X/2t1nV3Rv8rVQz1TX1+vWjQf7360ZVu481/FM4yFNV+ ktFRAf0Vwj0+jf5GexoHaWlw7oxMFdrK940OKsfrp7ZiHS+ALrp2oEVJ8BUS+MO6UWoE b4WBNlB4ziKaQHNes+cqPcO9DaY9j848bxJ01KN4pZR9CijQI+OX1Xvs6EO3DGEC7nnq l3Sw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=yeKywRF4wyjzyer6QZt2gvEjM6m1c7EBVaSuYJ8YsEA=; b=m6ITvnGqXSG6+giNW3wFQlEDEnRhTNpfCyKDeAyECmqGdsa0APeuE8hKSS/nG/7y9p UwpynFwyyqRP3eksxwi2h7GRdNBgyjFwRYolMKWld6nbw/hRNIFmzYLtvuetYBgS87o7 yjkiTk8gj4b9gIVaTg4yeBAkSp3B7nz0waf2B7CgINyhQ+OQRpVxSS0ZTBFDPPWwwFu4 mjscFfNWktNopfzHlbDRqKS5wZZbUXHaOxYotdghoAqDMgl3soECvawH5E0qviKN23hl F2w4u326H5jzJWOa1ENxMTU81RJ70d9nlC4/VdhuP+vUY/imeMcnmT3M/SQoKyKyYTlU 5aLQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FWWPczj/KGtuc8TrulVEs/220AcAsdtNPjJ7Wjvfm4ZcVJFpRheiwtIncnbVzTJGBsOcB7+LQ8eTGs8+A== X-Received: by 10.194.231.196 with SMTP id ti4mr28760352wjc.41.1461436656270; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:37:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.194.103.233 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:36:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20160423162910.7cd2ede2@curlew.lan> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:36:56 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Sane way to resolve potential conflicts in the system To: Carmel Cc: User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:37:39 -0000 On 23 April 2016 at 19:28, Carmel wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:02:13 +0300, Odhiambo Washington stated: > > >I will need to look into this because I use a mixture of portupgrade > >and pkg on this system. Scary? > > That is one of the reasons I avoid packages. I have several ports that > require custom configurations, such as Postfix, Dovecot and a few > others. It just doesn't pay for me to mix packages and ports. There > just isn't any upside. The package system is just to juvenile right now. > Until it matures, I will stay with ports. > > I wouldn't say it's juvenile, but when it doesn't give me the option to customize (like make config) then I am afraid - very afraid - of it. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft."