Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

[Chad Perrin]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 01:52:19AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:40:50 -0500, David Jackson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> > >
> > > Other things to keep in mind are language settings. One example is
> > > OpenOffice which needs to have the language setting at compile
> > > time, especially if you're not using the english language.
> >
> > You could compile a version of that for each language and I think
> > thats what Ubuntu does, or, just compile maybe top 1 or 2 most
> > commonly used language version and then other versions could be user
> > compiled.
> 
> There are, I think... at least 10 languages available, and combine this
> with Gnome, KDE and CUPS support OFF or ON, and you have 10*2*2*2 = 80
> packages, and still no scheme to name them. :-)

Don't forget compiling for multiple architectures.  That adds more
options -- and, unlike some of those other options, compiling for
different architectures is often actually a mutually-exclusive option
set.

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