Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 03/02/2014 21:24, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> be beneficial in a very short amount of time. Even if you prefer to > >> compile from source, > >=20 > > I use source, rarely if ever use packages, (except pkg_delete > > to remove old broken dependencies). No opinion which scrips are better.= > > >=20 > >=20 > >> you will still reap the benefits of the modern > >> packaging system. > >=20 > > In 10.0 FreeBSD `reaped the benefit` of a default new horrible > > registry that smells like Microsoft with quasi binary local.sqlite > > needing special tools. (Yes I know there's an export function.) > >=20 > > For 2 decade we've poured scorn on Microsoft & its opaque easily > > damaged hard to access registry, & lauded how with FreeBSD we can > > examine & manipulate & repair our text based equivalent with any > > number of personal choice text tools, & now FreeSBD is burdened by > > this horrible Microsoft style registry. > > You're being absurd.
Immediately personal criticism is a poor way to start convincing. ports/ is not just for package addicts. I never install packages, but only build & install from ports/. sqlite junk obstructs /var/db/pkg being accessed by find & grep to debug breaking ports builds. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Interleave replies below like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or multipart/alternative. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
