On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:10, Russ Cox wrote: > > I keep thinking about gentoo, since I really still like freebsd better and > > gentoo reminds me of the freebsd ports collection. There are days I miss > > from my old job which involved a lot of FreeBSD work ... > > Gentoo and FreeBSD ports are both getting to be a little ridiculous. > I mean, really, why should I have to compile Firefox in order to install > it on my laptop? Let someone else waste the hours of cpu time to > compile it and the libraries it rides in on. All I want is a binary. > > I watched a FreeBSD user install the latest gaim from ports. > It was funny. It took at least an hour. Compare with the equivalent > on a binary package system like Debian:
Not to be coy, but: pkg_add -rv gaim? I don't think the FreeBSD user in question was very experienced. Also, as long as the ABI hasn't changed, one can also usually download packages from the -CURRENT port snapshot, if the ones snapshotted at -RELEASE are outdated. -Devon
