Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 21:21:39 -0400 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD did it again (still) Message-ID: <020431a6-1a7d-d80e-0725-585c21f3ef27@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3ce31ee2-5e35-d31c-71ca-dc95ece2dd61@intersonic.se> References: <27b3c757-1f00-a033-03f6-303a82ab65f2@columbus.rr.com> <3ce31ee2-5e35-d31c-71ca-dc95ece2dd61@intersonic.se>
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On 7/5/2017 4:31 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > On 2017-07-06 01:54, Baho Utot wrote: >> Up graded an old laptop from 10.1 to 11.0-p10. I then checked out >> the latest quarterly ports. I figured that FreeBSD would barf and I >> was not disappointed. Built the ports with synth and then I installed >> them, xorg promptly shit itself. >> >> So I typed pkg autoremove just for shits and giggles. Before the >> upgrade pkg autoremove did nothing ( nothing to remove ) the latest >> pkg wanted to remove all of Xorg and some other things but not remove >> lumina. Figure that one out. >> >> Working on figuring this out. >> >> Can you tell me why FreeBSD doesn't need versioned ports again? I am >> just looking for something that works, I don't need the last version >> of xyz that just came off the press. >> >> Thinking I may need to leave FreeBSD and find something that is >> stable/works. An upgrade from a recent version should not requir >> days to weeks to get it to work. >> > > Hi, > > Not sure what you are aiming at here but - just felt I had to comment. > You are probably right that there must be cohersion between packages > and system when using prebuilt binaries. > > My way of doing it is the opposite, everything is compiled from > source, the classic *nix way. This way, FreeBSD has never let me down. > > I think the best approach if you have an older system where it takes > ages to compile, you really need to follow a strict path using > packages. On a more recent system, nothing beats source builds. > > There has been a lot of discussion over this matter recently, please > understand that this is not RedHat or Ubuntu, the resources needed to > keep up with building binaries are limited in comparison. If you need > prebuilt packages, please just contribute to the work. > > Just my SEK 0.2 > > //per I built the ports from svn source using synth I did not use prebuilt binaries. I did do it the classic *nix way.
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