whoever conceptualized this pkg management system needs to be brought out to the shed. I haven't used my Freebsd 12.1 in a few months, and I can't install a simple library without having to re-install every application on the planet that's a few weeks out of date. And the system is stupid; for example my Perl was a few minutes out of date, so it insisted on installing Perl 5; it installs all of the dependencies before telling me I already have last weeks version of PERL and I'll have to deinstall it and re-install PERL to load the stupid little library I wanted to use. My gmake was 45 seconds old so I had to re-install this. 1/2 hour later I still have no idea how close or far I am from using this library, which should be able to just be plopped into /usr/local/lib and used like with any other reasonable OS.
Pkg is supposed to make things easy, but it makes everything more difficult. It's a total failure as a concept.
FreeBSD is becoming everything I hate about linux.
Pkg is supposed to make things easy, but it makes everything more difficult. It's a total failure as a concept.
FreeBSD is becoming everything I hate about linux.