Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:27:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0 vs 9.1 Message-ID: <kcntb6$o16$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <CAO=uXhMPrz=r9UytFzGTEXNsEL4ZWXcfsfcRxKL84yY0SXWDCw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600, Scott Eberl wrote: > OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading > all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after > upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now. It > takes forever and asks me questions I have no idea what the answer is > to. Early today I installed irssi which I had to do with make clean > install because just doing pkg_add -r irssi complains about not being > able to find the url of it. > > Should I just reinstall 9.0 and not upgrade, will ports work correctly > then? What is difficult about compiling/installing from ports?
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