On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:45:06PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
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>
> On Apr 2, 2011, at 7:07 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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> > Chris Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On 2 April 2011 00:58, Chris Telting <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell.
> >>
> >> I think you've misunderstood the term dependency hell [1]. Anyone
> >> who has spent hours struggling with rpm ... would never dare to
> >> even think of such terms when using the Ports Collection.
> >
> > Dependency purgatory?
>
> Dantency Inferno. :)
>
seriously, this is why i want that debian+freebsd that was
discussed recently. the kernel is ours and number one in the
world. and the ports stuff is basically packages that more/less
just-work. you can get the src =with= the pkg.
.
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