Port dependencies

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 07:45:06PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> 
> 
> On Apr 2, 2011, at 7:07 PM, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> 
> > Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 2 April 2011 00:58, Chris Telting <christopher-ml at telting.org> wrote:
> >>> One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell.
> >> 
> >> I think you've misunderstood the term dependency hell [1]. Anyone
> >> who has spent hours struggling with rpm ... would never dare to
> >> even think of such terms when using the Ports Collection.
> > 
> > Dependency purgatory?
> 
> Dantency Inferno. :)
> 


	seriously, this is why i want that debian+freebsd that was
	discussed recently.  the kernel is ours and number one in the
	world.  and the ports stuff is basically packages that more/less
	just-work.  you can get the src =with= the pkg.  

	.

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