FreeBSD and ports vs. vlc

[Scott Lambert]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:55:17PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:41:33 -0400
> Alan Shutko <ats at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> > If they break the interfaces that other programs depend on, isn't that
> > their problem?
> 
> Possible, I wouldn't know. I'm just reporting that vlc doesn't compile
> out-of-the-box on FreeBSD.

FreeBSD's ports collection installs the devel/beta versions of these 
packages in a way that allows you to keep the stable versions installed.

If you want to push the bleeding edge, you can do it.  But the default is
going to be stable.

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