On May 5, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
Some distros have a hard time with you installing by compiling from
the
source. Actually, they work fine until there's an update or
upgrade. Then
it gets confused by a newer version of some program (it could be
something
as minor as an unusual LaTeX style or newer version of Rhythmbox)
that the
upgrade halts, leaving your system in a wonderfully unstable state
that
requires you to do a fresh install anyway.
This is one of the advantages to the BSD core+ports system and the
way it separates the core from add-on packages. It's got its own
hatefulness, of course, but I'd rather have some redundant and
normally unused stuff in core even with the occasional "which perl am
I using anyway".
