install git from dports failed

[Justin Sherrill]

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Andrey Oktyabrskiy <ano at bestmx.net> wrote:

> On 07.11.2013 12:34, John Marino wrote:
>
>> It must have helped because 1.1.4_1 can not support the latest dports.
>> In fact, any port you built is probably invalid.
>>
> Why it does not upgraded by make upgrade?
>

Packaging has always been kept separate - that's not really a reason, but
more of a habit.  Pkg tools also never used to need to be upgraded.


> P.S. Theoretical question. Why dports can't coexist with pkgsrc?
>

They both write to /var/db/pkg, and frankly, you'd end up with a nightmare
of doubly-installed packages, since neither one would know of the other's
dependencies.
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