Re: Disputation of g0n on the power and efficacy of XS

Not really sure if this is related to the parent thread...

Recently, I installed Freebsd and spent some time exploring it. I like the idea of using ports for installing packages through the Net but...

When you try to install X which depends on A which depends on B which depends on a newer version of C than the one currently on your system which depends on D but it's not available for download for some strange reasons...Error at blah blah blah.

I think the idea of perl modules being totally dependent on perl sounds cool to me.

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Re^2: Disputation of g0n on the power and efficacy of XS by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 26, 2005 at 17:54 UTC
The BSD you're using should also keep copies of the required source in the distfiles directory on their FTP site. Also, you can usually download this stuff precompiled from your BSD's web site and don't even have to deal with compiling source code. So the above isn't a problem that takes more than a minute to work around.	[reply]