From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: <20050719T084834Z_FFB700000000@mail2.cu-portland.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1121793240.1813.1.camel@noisegen> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:14:00 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6bd401ea-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:10, Russ Cox wrote: > > I keep thinking about gentoo, since I really still like freebsd better and > > gentoo reminds me of the freebsd ports collection. There are days I miss > > from my old job which involved a lot of FreeBSD work ... > > Gentoo and FreeBSD ports are both getting to be a little ridiculous. > I mean, really, why should I have to compile Firefox in order to install > it on my laptop? Let someone else waste the hours of cpu time to > compile it and the libraries it rides in on. All I want is a binary. > > I watched a FreeBSD user install the latest gaim from ports. > It was funny. It took at least an hour. Compare with the equivalent > on a binary package system like Debian: Not to be coy, but: pkg_add -rv gaim? I don't think the FreeBSD user in question was very experienced. Also, as long as the ABI hasn't changed, one can also usually download packages from the -CURRENT port snapshot, if the ones snapshotted at -RELEASE are outdated. -Devon