| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Holm Tiffe <holm(at)freibergnet(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] int 8 on FreeBSD |
| Date: | 1999-03-03 14:39:59 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.05.9903031037310.61088-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > Agreed, but, as far as I've seen so far (and I use FreeBSD myself, and
> > hate it),
>
> Why you use it ?
I knew after I typed that that I had worded it wrong...I hate the way it
installs various ports, like tk/tcl ... I don't hate FreeBSD itself...
> > FreeBSD is the only one that confuses the whole mess by doing
> > this :(
>
> I think, this is because FreeBSD has learned. There was a time who Tcl/Tk
> versions where released nearly every day. FreeBSD has had an "imported"
> tcl version in it's source dist. All Tcl versions where incomatible
> to each other this time, and I've had to work around this several times.
> The current behavior of FreeBSD is the only one solution for this.
> Think of Linux, which libc today ?
The "only one solution for this" is the standard/accepted one by everyone
*except* for FreeBSD, that is *why* we have standards...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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