On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, at 7:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> And the fact that BSD ports downloads, configures, builds, and installs >> all the specified components *from source* leads BSD bigots into thinking >> that the BSD ports packagers must be doing a much better job then Red Hat >> or Debian packagers. > > Yeah, the source junkies never seem to take into account managing > hundreds or even thousands of boxes. './configure;make;make install' gets > old *real* fast in those situations.
At least BSD ports automates that much. Really, though, I was referring to the fact that BSD ports (or Gentoo portage) is not magically better at handling dependencies; rather, by building everything locally, it bypasses the problem. Since the build environment *is* the target environment, everything becomes much easier. And, ideally, I suspect that is the way to go. Alas, "closed source" software still plays far too big a role in my world for me to take that route. And as soon as you introduce one pre-compiled binary into a "source only" system, everything goes straight to hell in a zip file. >> And, again, it's also largely responsible for why Windoze sucks so much. >> ... it's a minor kind of miracle the thing ever works at all. > > Does it work at all? ;-) Alas, yes, it does. If it was flat-out, dead-in-the-water broken I'd have a much easier time pitching Linux. :-/ -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
