On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:47:47 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't like pkgsrc because this limitations: > 1. Many packages in pkgsrc are obsolete, and there are no development > version of almost all packages (i wan't to see new version of dbmail, > xorg and enlightenment 0.17 in packages system).
I am sure the pkgsrc developers will merge patches that update the necessary packages. Every time I had such a problem they updated the tree. > 2. Many packages in pkgsrc are configured with '--without-threading' > option, because not all systems which pkgsrc work on support > threading. I want omit this limitation. AFAIK this can be overriden (platform-specificly) in the makefile. > 3. Binary upgrade packages with pkg_add -u is difficult. Eg. it is > possible to upgrade only selected packages. Pacman can upgrade > selected packages and also whole installed packages. I think we > should have tool to binary upgrade base system also. Well, I tried binary upgrades only once and it did not work for me, maybe I should try again. The binary upgrades are a must in my opinion for the installed packages and the base system. -- Gergo Szakal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University Of Szeged, HU Faculty Of General Medicine /* Please do not CC me with replies, thank you. */