Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

Jan Beich jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 4 17:10:22 UTC 2017


Dennis Glatting <freebsd at pki2.com> writes:

>  1) I am tired of port breakage. I am past tired of being told to read
> UPDATEs when UPDATEs often has limited information, including install
> conflicts. 
>
>  2) "Error 70" on installs with no indication of where the error was
> incurred and thus requiring me to make with debug flags and then dig
> deep is past annoying. 
[...]
> Further:
>
> 1) Under FreeBSD I do not do binaries, rather I do source and I do
> source for reasons. Under Linux, source is troublesome.

I'm curious what are those "reasons" that don't affect Linux. Those may
be valid FreeBSD shortcomings unlike what you've listed above which is
mainly about source vs. binary packages.


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