I installed from two CDs, and got a working KDE system. Now, I want to do
Firefox from ports with my own make.conf for P4 optimisation. Good! So, I
sync with the sources using cvsup (just like emerge --sync) change to the
Firefox ports directory, type "make" and enter dependency hell like has
never been known before. Everything that depends upon GTK2 must be
updated before Firefox can be compiled!
I thought that FreeBSD would be more stable than Gentoo and Linux distros
in general. I now find that there is the most major release step (5.4 to
6.0) and within a matter of a few days later, both Gnome and KDE are
subject to huge updates that require many hours (or maybe days - it's not
done yet) of CPU time.
Maybe I am missing something. However, I just cannot see why this is
right. What I thought that FreeBSD would give me that Gentoo did not is a
coherent system within which deveopment was co-ordinated. Instead, I seem
to find the opposite. The core group can offer a major release of the OS,
while missing the fact that two hugely important development groups are
just days off their own major releases.
Maybe there is a level of sanity I am missing as a newcomer to BSD, but I
would really like someone to tell me where to find it so that I can stop
having to use this bloody Windows laptop to post here ;-)
Heh, essentially the problem is this... before a release, the ports tree is
stabalized... everything builds and works together, broken dependencies are
fixed, all is good with the world. This is the ports tree which is included
in the release.
After the release, More Stuff (tm) is added/updated/etc. By doing a cvsup,
you asked for the "newest" version of all the ports, one which is not
necessarily stable... dependencies may be broken, things may not work etc.
Doing a cvsup in ports is like tracking -STABLE for ports. If you had not
done the cvsup, FF would have built and installed nicely.
IMHO, CVSupping ports is subject to the same caveats as tracking -STABLE
(See section 20.2.2 in the handbook)
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