ports and dependency hell

[RW]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 16:03:56 +0800
Julian Elischer wrote:

> On 8/2/17 3:17 am, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> >
> > On 07/02/2017 18:03, Julian Elischer wrote:  
> >> This is a serious post  on a serious issue that ports framework 
> >> people seem unaware of.
> >> (...)
> >>
> >> The call "It just works under linux, select the versions you want 
> >> of each package and type make" is often heard around the company. 
> >> And management is not totally deaf.
> >>  
> >
> > Hi Julian,
> > I may not fully understand how it works but what prevents you from 
> > getting sources for the version you want and typing make in them, 
> > exactly the way you do it in Linux? It should pick up the versions 
> > of dependencies currently installed in the system and compile for 
> > them. Is it only when you want to use the ports infrastructure that 
> > poses a problem?  
> 
> Nothing stops me from doing that. It's just that means that the ports 
> infrastructure is useless and a complete waste of time right?
> I'm no ready to admit that, however I may just be in denial.


It wasn't entirely clear what you were comparing FreeBSD ports with,
is it specifically buildroot2?