Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:55:05 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sane way to resolve potential conflicts in the system Message-ID: <9ed38de6-0089-9645-9798-7cdf767d3047@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <CAAdA2WM0mmO%2BVaCKc6MfJtgJRfRuq=0r-MuDyYKgW3mVFFX5%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAAdA2WPZiBYxK9XL_ToAvWtQOiJ0Da7fqVBinyq10%2BMC10zz6A@mail.gmail.com> <CAOc73CC57yjqteXrZZd%2Bs2Z353r9AycG39mf9f136hGaY=iTzQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAAdA2WMJc%2Bt=mw9FZ5ScPBxg0K5t-J7VHozBPBjd_-1TzunCZw@mail.gmail.com> <20160423162910.7cd2ede2@curlew.lan> <BLU436-SMTP13BF30CFA35882760E7E8080600@phx.gbl> <CAAdA2WNJ1ru4NunPZ1aZkndXYnK218ojB-3673FDtoBcAH-OJA@mail.gmail.com> <BLU436-SMTP216A4769A78511EFEBCDFB280600@phx.gbl> <CAAdA2WM0mmO%2BVaCKc6MfJtgJRfRuq=0r-MuDyYKgW3mVFFX5%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04/23/16 13:43, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On 23 April 2016 at 19:28, Carmel <carmel_ny@outlook.com> 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.
>
>
>
Packages necessarily don't give you that option. They aren't supposed
to. You accept whatever options the builder/maintainer selected &
install/upgrade. Where it might take hours to rebuild a bunch of ports,
it often takes just a few min. to install/upgrade packages. You pick
your option (ports or packages) & (hopefully) are happy w/ it. I
maintain this box w/ packages almost exclusively, except for flash
support in the browsers, which must be compiled up in ports due to
licensing issues. When I was getting started w/ FreeBSD, summer of 2014,
I built iceweasel in ports per list advice, took 5 1/2 hrs. (!!!!!). I
upgraded it a few weeks later w/ pkg, took less than 30 sec.
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William A. Mahaffey III
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