spreculative: /bin2 & /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees?

Programmer In Training pit at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us
Tue Mar 2 17:47:13 UTC 2010


On 03/02/10 11:35, Chris Rees wrote:
<snip>
> Why does it make a difference with the prefix on where you put them?
> You shouldn't manually delete ports, anyway. You should deinstall them
> using the port...
> 
> Chris

I think he's talking about how with Debian and apt you can specify
different repositories to install from without messing up the base
system. My problem with that is that dependency resolution quickly
breaks if you have one of the repositories out of sync with the others.

-- 
Yours In Christ,

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