Antoni Grzymala dixit (2011-02-17, 01:40): > > if you want to see how this can be done correctly, look at freebsd > > or openbsd, where software can be built -or- installed from > > packages. > > I did look and I found an obscure mess of working or non-working > makefiles. Somewhat akin to arch's AUR, on which we both seem to agree > that it's a failure.
Also, suggesting that people run *bsd on some modern commodity hardware (especially laptops) is totally unrealistic. -- [a]