Ha! and RPMs aren't fragile? How many times have you installed an RPM that has broken dependencies?
The argument you make here applies equally to RPMs.
Is everyone stuck in Linux? It seems like nobody has used/usr/ports on a BSD machine lately. Personally, I think it's got what everyone needs, being a package system that's got the features talked about here, and it even builds from source. Now, if I'm seeing this correctly, the reason we _have_ source distributions of things is a) for the customizability of it all , b) to have the source at our disposal to do with as we please./usr/ports allows one to do just that. Coupled with ease of use ('cd/usr/ports/category/myprogram/' 'make install'), I think we've got a winner. Too bad the linux world doesn't have that... Until then, FreeBSD and OpenBSD get my vote...
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Ha! and RPMs aren't fragile? How many times have you installed an RPM that has broken dependencies? The argument you make here applies equally to RPMs.
Is everyone stuck in Linux? It seems like nobody has used /usr/ports on a BSD machine lately. Personally, I think it's got what everyone needs, being a package system that's got the features talked about here, and it even builds from source. Now, if I'm seeing this correctly, the reason we _have_ source distributions of things is a) for the customizability of it all , b) to have the source at our disposal to do with as we please. /usr/ports allows one to do just that. Coupled with ease of use ('cd /usr/ports/category/myprogram/' 'make install'), I think we've got a winner. Too bad the linux world doesn't have that... Until then, FreeBSD and OpenBSD get my vote...
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