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Re: PC-BSD
Yaroslav Tarasenko wrote:
I remember how it was simple installing software (and upgrading to new
versions) on BeOS: you should just unzip archive file and put its
contents somewhere on HD. Is it a dream in bsd world?
Nope. You can get sources from $project and compile them yourself, using
the usual ./configure, make and make install process. There you can
decide where every piece will go, overwrite it with newer versions, etc.
Only pain is, you have to look after dependencies on other software
yourself, which is a major PITA in open sores projects. Everyone seems
to think they need to include massive libraries to use some function
they could implement themselves as well.
Cheers,
-- Thomas E. Spanjaard
tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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