Re: [Gaim-devel] Unofficial Gaim-Current Free bsd port?

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Jeff Utter spake unto us the following wisdom:
>> Why bother with a port? Just check out straight CVS. The only
>> thing that you'll have to deal with is the fact that FreeBSD
>> ports uses an old, crusty libtool...I got around this by hacking
>> some files up.=20

(Fix your mailreader, Ben ... 72 columns.  ;-)

> I think ports are really nice, as far as keeping your system clean.
> Usually i dislike installing applications directly, for if i ever want
> to remove them, it's a pain in the butt!... however with Gaim, i'd
> probably never want to remove it :-P so i may just do that.

I use a separate directory (/usr/local on my Linux boxen and NetBSD
boxen, although I seem to recall that FreeBSD used /usr/local for
ports, dunno if it still does) for unmanaged packages, and it seems to
work well for me.  Gaim is there, since I upgrade it and replace it
all the time...  If anything there gets out of hand, I can blow away
the unmanaged directory structure and (theoretically) it's not too
tough to replace the few packages that live there.  (I package
critical things if I can't find a package pre-made.)

Ethan

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