Sane way to resolve potential conflicts in the system

[Odhiambo Washington]

On 23 April 2016 at 19:28, Carmel <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:02:13 +0300, Odhiambo Washington stated:
>
> >I will need to look into this because I use a mixture of portupgrade
> >and pkg on this system. Scary?
>
> That is one of the reasons I avoid packages. I have several ports that
> require custom configurations, such as Postfix, Dovecot and a few
> others. It just doesn't pay for me to mix packages and ports. There
> just isn't any upside. The package system is just to juvenile right now.
> Until it matures, I will stay with ports.
>
>
I wouldn't say it's juvenile, but when it doesn't give me the option to
customize (like make config) then I am afraid - very afraid - of it.



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