The ports are really funcional?

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote:

> El 30-10-2011, a las 19:55, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> escribi?:
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>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote:
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>>> What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for example I had to modify "REFRESH" to "true", but also to get out other errors, commonly have a solution, but is a great problem to have to spend all his time fixing bugs. Please tell me if it is natural to every time I download large modifying ports so, if so, then why say "functional"?
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>> Yes, ports work well.  From the description, it's difficult to tell what is causing the problem.  Please supply additional information, like what version of FreeBSD and the exact output of one of the errors (script(1) is useful for that).  Also see the section in the Handbook about packages and ports: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
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>> Translations of the Handbook can be found at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ in the books subdirectory.
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> the problem is not the problem, since most are solving the problem is that there are many errors and problems, then as I say it is stable and functional?

The ports system is stable and functional for others, including me, so 
what needs to be figured out is the source of problems on your system.