Is anyone currently using FreeBSD and can you tell me what the status of this is? How does one see what other packages will be installed when you "make install" of some app? And is there yet any tool yet to check and rebuild dependent libraries? Revdep-rebuild has saved my ass a couple times.
Keep it coming... I'm loving this.
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Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
A short period of installing servers with FreeBSD, led me to use Gentoo.
I still have one BSD server and I'm waiting for an opportunity to
replace it also. the reason is maintenance. in gentoo, when you run
emerge -uav ... you see a list of what it will install and with what
options. in ports, it's very difficult to see what will be installed,
and almost impossible to see what are the options it will be installed
with (unless you're going to read the makefiles of all the ports you
install and their dependencies - in 5.x they are starting to deal with
it but the last time I looked it's far from being complete). also, there
is no revdep-rebuild so you have to test every application that depends
on a library you just installed (or run portupgrade -r). all of these
make it much harder to maintain.
Bye
