What do you love about the BSDs?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > What do you love about the BSDs?

wooger: Apr 16, 2005; YOU RESENT?

piss angel posted:

it's so easy though

code:

portsnap fetch extract
cd /usr/ports/$group/$port
make install clean

You conveniently leave out the interstitial steps:

code:

wait multiple hours if you're compiling something big, or something with big dependencies
get a confusing error message 2 hours in, that breaks the install

It's also an absolute nightmare if you're a new user and haven't learned that using a port for anything means that you can't use binary pkgs, and vice versa - unless you want to risk version dependency errors.

Pkg on FreeBSD suffers from the binary packages only being re-compiled once every 2 weeks or so, which means it's always out of date with the ports tree. It's not clear why they can't just re-compile every time a port is updated.

Debian has it's flaws, but being able to install a whole list of software in a few seconds with one command was a revelation 10 years ago, and pkg on FreeBSD still isn't close.
apt-get has only broken a couple of times in a decade for me.

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