Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: For you SBBS Sysops opera
From:    Arelor
Date:    Thu Jun 13, 2024 07:55

Subject: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
@VIA: PALANTIR
  Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX,what's your flavor?
  By: Accession to Arelor on Sun Jun 09 2024 06:59 pm

 > I usually do non-distro related compiles and custom patching on stuff I
 > install to a src directory straight from github. If I'm using 'pkg install'
 > on BSD, or 'pacman -S' on Arch, I usually tend to stick with that route. Not
 > sure how it is these days, but I would assume mixing the two could leadto
 > dependency issues or whatever else.
 >

On OpenBSD -stable you are very unlikely to break dependencies by mixing packagesand ports as long as you don't mess with core libraries. If you mess with core libraries you can actually survive anyway because it will only break stuff if you make api/abi breaking changes.

On -current it is a different matter entirely, because stuff changes all the time.
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