On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:39:59AM -0000, Andreas Hauser wrote: > - no portupgrade
I stated before that I don't agree with this FOR TECHNICAL REASON. portupgrade is a hack, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. See other comments for examples. > - deinstalls before compiling That's the update target, which makes perfect sense to allow a *clean*, *reproducable* build. Use pkg_comp if you don't like it. > - less ports How much of the (partly very badly maintained) ports are of importance? Heck, look at Debian vs. the rest. Simply because Debian has a few tousand packages more doesn't make it any more suited for use than e.g. SuSE. > - important ports not compiling > (i hear, no KDE since April, fortunaty.net packages have KDE) See other reply. Faking FreeBSD is not a solution either, it tends to HIDE problems. I don't know about KDE, I'm not there yet. > - stuff like pkg_views is experimental for years ROFL. This is bad because ports doesn't offer anything comparable? > - incompatible make Which is bad because most users already have two makes installed? Come on, that's stupid. Joerg
