Re: When ports are at war

Lars Eighner <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When ports go to war, this is what happens:

x11-toolkits/py-gnome-extras depends on libgda2.
editors/gnome2-office depends on libgda3.
You can't have both.


This is what happens when a project gets busy devoting itself to
a bunch of religious nutcases who just have to have a cartoon
of a demon removed from everything.


As much as i like BEASTIE i doubt it is the loss of daemonic influences
that lead to such port errors! When a project manages 15 000 ports, it
is *very* difficult to keep everything in working order. You have to take into
account that FreeBSD and Debian have order of magnitude better port coverage
than any other free system, and then accept some ensuing problems with both.



--

Michel TALON

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