On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:38:39AM -0500, Chris wrote: > "E. J. Cerejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those > > ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because > > portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any > > more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or > > it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my > > ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with > > rarian, they install files on the same directory. Go figure. Those > > were the days when it used to work. > > This is one of the main reasons users are having a serious look at > Linux distros like Fedora or some Debian-ish ones.
That's ironic, considering I used Debian because Fedora wasn't stable enough, and switched to FreeBSD in part because even Debian wasn't stable enough. . . . and Debian itself is far more stable than the other "Debian-ish" distros. > > I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell > y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum > update/upgrade. . . . except when they break something. It's a lot easier to fix broken software on FreeBSD than with a binary packaged based Linux distribution, in my (recent) experience. > > I used to love spending my Friday nights updating my FreeBSD ports - > then, as you are finding out - it's just getting tedious. I've never found updating the software on a system "fun". That's part of the reason I find I prefer FreeBSD: it doesn't break shit as often, and thus doesn't make it even *more* un-fun. > I'm not criticizing, simply commenting on my experiences. Likewise, the above are only my experiences. I realize they are not necessarily objectively "true". -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: "I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby." _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
