Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jun 4 06:03:54 UTC 2012


In message <3851080.JQJobqxLc8 at x220.ovitrap.com>, Erich writes:

>yes, you miss a very simple thing. Updated this morning your ports
>tree. Your client asks for something for Monday morning for which
>you need now a program which needs some kind of PNG but you did not
>install it.

It seems to me that you are missing a number of aspects and options
of how you do configuration control on a system, if you think the
ports collection is your only tool.

Take a peek at src/tools/tools/sysbuild for instance.


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