Flaws in the ports system?
Christopher JS Vance
freebsd at nu.org
Fri Oct 21 22:17:42 PDT 2005
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:47:28PM +0200, nocturnal wrote:
>This is a very low priority discussion but i was just wondering if there
>are any known design flaws in the ports system or other reasons for the
>ports to be replaced by a new system.
Needing to make install before make package is a design flaw - it
should be the other way around. The implementation needs to be able
to ensure that the building host's environment is affected only by
installing the package/port, not just by building the port into a
package. It can be done.
I like the number of ports available in FreeBSD compared to the other
BSDs, so it's not all one way.
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Christopher Vance
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