A lot of pkg problems

Michael Sierchio kudzu at tenebras.com
Tue Sep 16 21:30:09 UTC 2014


On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> The amount of time people are willing to invest in "saving time" with
> packages is interesting.  In many cases, they could have built from ports
> and been done quicker overall, or at least with less user involvement.

And you can always do a 'make package' for a port - with the advantage
of being able, in many cases, to answer config questions that can
change the behavior and usefulness of a package (e.g., racoon with the
control port enabled, disabled by default in the packages).

- M


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