On 1/30/2012 6:13 PM, freebsd-lists-e...@erikosterholm.org wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:28:28PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
You talk a lot about how easy it is to maintain a binary package system.
I would like you to convince me that it is easy, keeping in mind that it
should remain compatible with the ports system. I am willing to be
convinced.
--
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Oh come on, guys. David is the same person who said that FreeBSD was
poorly documented.
http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-questions/2011-12/msg00684.html
I really hate throwing around the 'T' word, but I'm starting to
wonder. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt a bit longer.
David, it's increasingly clear that FreeBSD is not going to fit your
needs. If, for some reason, you are interested in the FreeBSD kernel,
but binary packages, consider GNU/kFreeBSD.
I'm finding this conversation very amusing. After playing with I don't
know how many Linux distributions since the mid-90's, and running into
the same problem of things breaking after updating binary packages, I
moved to FreeBSD around 5.0 for my web server. Since that time, I've
forced to do one reinstall due to a hardware failure, somewhere around
7.0. I am now running 8.2. After going through I can't remember how
many upgrades and updates, I've only had a couple of minor issues over
the years (most were resolved after reading Updating after the fact ;-)
). I'll give up the time savings of binary packages vs. the
dependability of compiling stuff myself any day.
Greg Groth
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