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:Hiten Pandya wrote:
:
:>
:> In my opinion, the option to build packages is only useful to people who
:> want extreme modifications to their applications. I am sure most
:> people, including me would not really care about source packages; I for
:> one would not bother building OpenOffice or KDE locally, total waste of
:> time.
:
:I totally agree with you.
:
:>
:> Extremely important to get binary package management right, including
:> dependency handling, (automatic) updating.
:>
:
:Yes. But how do you manage those softs, unfortunately extremely
:important, which cannot be delivered in binary form, like Java,
:and their dependencies?
:If it was not for these softs, and some other softs like Gnome, which
:are constantly broken for any reason, i have the impression (illusion?)
:that portupgrade -PP would do the job perfectly.
:
Illusion. Every time I have ever used portupgrade, the result has
been a completely broken system. Every time.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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