Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Wed Apr 20 16:58:54 PDT 2005


Brett Glass wrote:

>At 09:16 PM 4/19/2005, Joel wrote:
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>>Oh? Well, okay, MSWxp sp2 is not what I would call professionally
>>crafted software. 
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>They're professionals; they're just not always competent professionals.
>But they're light years ahead of FreeBSD on the issue of maintainability.
>With FreeBSD, the answer is almost always to wipe the system clean and
>rebuild from scratch.
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>

Not in my experience. More oft than not, it's FreeBSD I "fix" and
that other OS I "flatten".

But then, maybe we work in different environments, although
I'm betting my experience is more common than yours; but then
again, we're way OT and about to cross a troll bridge, aren't we?

Kevin Kinsey


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