Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:54:24 -0700 From: joe <joe@dubium.com> To: SweeTLeaF <SweeTLeaF@myrealbox.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bad experience Message-ID: <200209291954.24574.joe@dubium.com> In-Reply-To: <1055310205.20020929172110@myrealbox.com> References: <1055310205.20020929172110@myrealbox.com>
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Please don't feed the troll.
-Joe
On September 29, 2002 03:21 pm, SweeTLeaF wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> What is the issue with Freebsd currently? I am trying to move from
> Open to Free and i have to say the experience to date is
> undesirable.....to say the least. I have tried several different
> releases this week and everyone has had issues but the most
> frustrating is the packages. The packages are not there, pkg_add
> wont work with the format when they are there ex. .tbz, packages
> not installing properly ie. not installing their deps and broken
> links and pipes and i mean the latter with regards to the .tgz format
> which is suppose to work. They did not have any packages for the
> release i am currently using ...trying to use (4.7rc2) so i was told
> to use the 4-stable packages. Today i took a peek @ the 4-stable and
> they appear to be missing just a directory link which gives ./dir not
> there errors when trying to access and.... they are once again in the
> damn .tgz format which does not work. This is very
> frustrating and time consuming. I truly hope that the project is
> not normally this sloppy and undocumented, as i continue to look
> forward to my initial goal.
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Joe
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We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds...
Will our inward power of resistance
be strong enough for us to find our way back?
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