Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:43:25PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote:
>time from ports because there are only small portion of precompiled 
>packages.

There should be a fairly complete set of packages for 7.0-RELEASE.
There can never be a totally complete set of packages for legal
reasons - the licenses on some ports do not permit them to be packaged.

>This thing should be solved.

Please offer some suggestions on how you would resolve the problem.

>And If I upgrade the OS I dont want to recompile ports for that.

You don't have to upgrade ports immediately.  It's just that you can't
upgrade any single port without re-building everything - for reasons
that have been spelled out elsewhere in this thread.

FWIW, the move to versioned symbols should (in theory) remove the
need to need to do a future complete recompile once you've rebuilt
all your ports against 7.x.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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