Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry
I started flame war
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen at math.missouri.edu
Fri Jul 4 04:33:07 UTC 2008
Rob Lytle wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> The sysinstall dependency problem has existed for 10 years, so I doubt that
> its unique to me. It has occurred in every installation I have ever done.
>
> I use portupgrade for all ports.
>
> i strongly disagree with using ports for huge packages. I don't have the
> time to waste compiling. Plus, you are presented with numerous nag screens
> so you have to babysit the whole process.
You can get rid of the nag screens by putting "BATCH=yes" into
/etc/make.conf. (Not that this negates your other points.)
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