On 2005-08-17, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >: >: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.
You must be doing something "wrong" (i.e. not the supported way) in order for it to misbehave so badly. Portupgrade is just not that broken if you understand how to use it. Kris
