On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:57:30 -0700 Carl Johnson <ca...@peak.org> wrote:
> Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: > > > On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:31:46 +0200 > > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > >> > The concept of free software has become a myth :( > >> > >> There is always Gentoo if libraries you consider useless bother > >> you. Binary distributions tend to enable all possibly useful > >> features. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Sven > > > > Gentoo isn't the only alternative. Just in case Jessie turns out to > > be unworkable for me when it goes stable, last night I made a very > > nice OpenBSD desktop computer that had most of what somebody could > > want on a desktop. However, try as I might, I couldn't get Sigil to > > compile on OpenBSD, and my business depends on Sigil for the next > > year or so. > > > > So what I'm now considering, as an escape route if systemd causes > > everything to go to hell in a handbasket (and we don't know whether > > that will happen), is that my main desktop is OpenBSD, with a > > virtual machine running Debian or Ubuntu in a VM in order to use > > Sigil and anything else I can't get to work on OpenBSD. > > > > I feel much better now that I know I have a Plan B. > > There is a FreeBSD port listed for sigil. If you don't want to run > FreeBSD, you could at least look at what their port does to get it to > compile. Carl, Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! I'll do that next weekend. Did I mention that Sigil is mission critical to my business? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140907140904.5bbd2...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
