Hi, 2012/6/3 Erich <erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com>: > [...] >> I witnessed those cases several times and at this moment, our four >> remaining FreeBSD servers and my personal desktop as well as my private >> box are rendered "unusable" in terms of having no LibreOffice since it >> doesn't compile anymore on FreeBSD 9-STABLE/amd64 and 10-CURRENT/amd64. > > Can I recommend jails to you? I compile ports in a jail. When everything went > through, I move this outside and install it. If something does not compile, I > keep normally the old ports tree.
poudriere + pkgng is especially nice for that kind of things :-) >> At the moment, this mess is introduced with a new PNG library. And we >> are updating on "life" machines, that means, they are not freshly > > Have fun with it. I have a running FreeBSD and will not touch the ports tree > before this all has settled. I didn't have any special trouble switching my "production" boxes (mostly website hosting, and backup handling) to pkgng. What kind of trouble did you run into ? > [...] >> Well, one may argue with me about "server" and "desktop". Comparing >> Linux (several distros) with FreeBSd and Windows makes the limited >> adavntages of FreeBSD getting rendered neglegible. We need PowerPoint or >> a similar office product for presentations, I'm getting strangled by >> students when using LaTeX and "beamer" or "PowerDot". The pressure from >> the Windows world is large. Why would students need to edit your presentations ? For viewing, they shouldn't care about what generated the pdf/ps/dvi/whatever. By the way, here, students are more likely to strangle you for not using *TeX/Beamer. > Just for the fun. If you get Microsoft-Formats from a client and send it then > back to the same client but in a different department, it is not sure that > they can read their 'own' files. Had the problem once : I got sent paperwork, filled it, and send it to another department, which didn't have a recent enough version of M$ Office, so they were unable to read docx files. Regards, _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
