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#1, Főfasz (10443)

1848 | #4e31 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:47:15 +01

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Hello Carlos,

Thanks for the video, i will watch it in the following days. Just now, i've just peeked into the first minute (boy, Daniel had some serious stage-fright) and i've noticed, that Daniel calls FreeBSD "not-ready" for PPC. Well, he put that mildly. I would rather call FreeBSD as an utter catastrophe on the PPC. I've tried it on my G5 and the lack of GPU support is the smallest problem with it. The real problem is, that there is no binary repo and the ports tree was an utter mess and both the hardware and the included compiler were choking on the vast amount of uncessary junk what was pulled as "dependency". Python (both 2 and 3) and it's heavyweighted and convoluted "build-systems". Perl. Java. Several C/C++ compilers. A ton of random libraries which made no sense. (Free beer for the one who tells me, why bison is a dependency of Xorg on FreeBSD and why Xorg also depends on both CLang and GCC...) And the list could go on. Dependency hell á la FreeBSD. The compiler also segfaulted a lot, compiled very-very slowly and always halted the process with questions (preferably, when i left the machine for a longer time, like lunch or sleep). I would gave half my arm for an option like --no-to-nls-and-debug-yes-to-all-else or something similar. The best part was, when it had to install a newer GCC and asked if i want to have Java support, which i accepted foolishly and the result was an entirely broken ports system, for compiling libjava have died with compile error, broke everything and nothing helped (not even make rmconfig-recursive), i couldn't restart compiling, so i had to reinstall the entire system and restart.

So, we can thank for the binary repositories in Void, or the rest of the PPC Linuxes. Life is hell without them.