linux_base-8 (Was: Re: trouble installing)

[Gunther Nikl]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:13:27AM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> I would encourage people to consider upgrading to linux_base-8 now that
> the ports tree has been switched over to use it as a default.

  I tried to switch from a (working!) linux_base 7.1 to 7.3 or 8 and I
  had no luck :-/ After I installed 7.3 several linux-programs couldn't
  find some shared libraries, eg. bash missed a libtermcap.so.2 and
  mozilla missed libpthread.so.0 (both are symlinks with 7.1). After
  creating the links bash worked but mozilla had further problems (wrong
  X libraries). With linux_base-8 mozilla also had problems with the X
  libraries. At that point I reverted to my working 7.1. Then its also
  disturbing that linux_base-8 need about 30M more diskspace. I wonder
  why.

  I am using (an old) 4-STABLE and I installed the linux_base packages.

  Gunther