Thank you (for making the ports less boring).

[Łukasz Wąsikowski]

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W dniu 2011-09-15 20:08, Chad Perrin pisze:

> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 07:00:47PM +0200, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote:
>> W dniu 2011-09-14 18:15, Christopher J. Ruwe pisze:
>>> 
>>> Came as Gentoo user, abandoned Gentoo because of to many quirks
>>> with updating packages (ebuilds). From my perspective, the
>>> situation is better here (FreeBSD).
>> 
>> Really? I've been using FreeBSD for over 10 years now, Gentoo for
>> half of that time and I can surely say that Gentoo's portage is
>> much better than FreeBSD's ports.
> 
> There are some nice things that portage does, and my experience
> with Gentoo is a few years out of date by now, but I remember one
> difference that made software management on FreeBSD much better
> than on Gentoo:
> 
> If there was something broken with a FreeBSD port (a relative
> rarity), it would fail to install, leaving me with the older
> version.  If there was something wrong with a Gentoo port, I'd end
> up with a broken install.

That's true. But I've got probably less then 5 situations when Gentoo
port broke that way. Overall experience of every day portage use is
just plain better. I hope for some changes in FreeBSD's ports system,
we know where to look for some good ideas.

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best regards
Lukasz Wasikowski
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