FreeBSD is really great.. BUT..

[Martin Braun]

> Because we're in a state of transition at the moment.  We have not yet
> completely obsoleted the old pkg_tools (soon though...), so there are
> changes to the ports tree we cannot make just yet.  pkg(8) itself is
> right now in the process of growing a much more sophisticated solver,
> which will mean much more intelligence about constructing dependency
> trees based on the capabilities and requirements of the available
> packages, rather than the RUN_DEPENDS settings pulled from the ports tree.
>
> Yes, it's frustrating at the moment since we're in a half-way house
> between the old-style ports and the regime where binary packages
> basically 'just work' for the vast majority of users.  (It's likely that
> there will always be people who want odd combinations of options who
> will be best advised to compile their own, but ideally they should be
> few and far between.)
>
> The best user experience at the moment seems to be for people building
> packages using poudriere (or similar) and running their own repo to
> distribute them.  But that's just at the moment, and could well change
> pretty soon.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Matthew

Thanks!

I think I'm gonna try Debian kFreeBSD - maybe I get the best of both -
until then atleast!