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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!frankensun.altair.com!news.thenet.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.seanet.com!news From: dennisg <dennisg@seanet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Where to put packages *not* from FreeBSD ? Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 13:07:19 -0800 Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32C58C07.52BFA1D7@seanet.com> References: <stanbE2z02s.BIK@netcom.com> <59rvb3$1nm@klemm.gtn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dennisg.seanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33360 Andreas Klemm wrote: > [snip] > > Make world recompiles everything in a proper way and installs everything > in the proper place. > > Things in /etc aren't touched, it's "root's" work, to update the > files if needed. > > In short terms, updating FreeBSD in this clever way, doesn't do > your system any harm. I do this nearly 5 times a month and it > didn't crash my system. I never ever had to reinstall something. > > I doubt, that any Linux distribution is able to upgrade so > cleanly ! > A thousand hacks they have, but no make world, debian linux is the only upgrade in place linux and it is done with sophisticated dependancy databases and package managers....( more to go wrong ) funny how clean make world is....(no dependacy problems, databases, special packing and unpacking software, etc..) I dunno I think you elegently understated it perfectly! :) dennisg@seanet.com