Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:19:13 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: erob@gthcfoundation.org, Adam Strohl <adams-freebsd@ateamsystems.com>, Etienne Robillard <animelovin@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3281963.IKoQ1DrBzf@x220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <4FCB3FAF.7010504@ateamsystems.com> References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org> <4FCB3B6D.4020802@gthcfoundation.org> <4FCB3FAF.7010504@ateamsystems.com>
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Hi, On 03 June 2012 PM 5:42:55 Adam Strohl wrote: > On 6/3/2012 17:24, Etienne Robillard wrote: > I feel like this thread is grossly overstating how often ports are > broken which is super rare in my experience. Proposing a version'd ports > tree seems like a bad-practice-encouraging-solution to a problem that > doesn't really exist [in my experience]. > do a simple thing. Install a naked 8.3, 9.0 or 10.0 on a fresh hard disk. Get then the ports tree and start compiling X. I did not get a running system since at least 2007 when I did this. There was always at least one manual intervention needed. I did this the last time in the first week of May. Yes, I know how to fix this. Yes, I reported things like this at the beginning. After getting always the answer that it is working on my machine, I stopped reporting it. Erich
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