Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 4 06:17:28 UTC 2012


On 04/06/2012 00:30, Mark Andrews wrote:
> The ports system defaults are to use a common build/runtime tree
> but at the cost of a little more disk space each major application
> could have its own build/runtime tree.  This is a tradeoff.  Most
> of the time having a shared set of libraries is a win, but just
> occasionally, it is a big pain.

That's PC-BSD .pbi format in a nutshell.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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