From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 08:15:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873D21065677 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:15:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raghu@mri.ernet.in) Received: from mail.mri.ernet.in (mail.mri.ernet.in [202.41.87.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862568FC16 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raghu@mri.ernet.in) Received: from ipc2.mri.ernet.in (internalmail.office.hri [192.168.1.9]) by mail.mri.ernet.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F718522A; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:56:31 +0500 (MVT) Received: from ipc2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipc2 (Postfix) with SMTP id 042DE1DF26; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:14:42 +0530 (IST) Received: from riemann.mri.ernet.in (riemann.mri.ernet.in [192.168.3.122]) by ipc2.mri.ernet.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA35119CEF; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:14:41 +0530 (IST) Received: from riemann.mri.ernet.in (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by riemann.mri.ernet.in (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m6I7cXp2095996; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:08:33 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from raghu@riemann.mri.ernet.in) Received: (from raghu@localhost) by riemann.mri.ernet.in (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m6I7cNQw095995; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:08:23 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from raghu) From: "N. Raghavendra" To: "Ansar Mohammed" In-Reply-To: <049601c8e895$41591f30$c40b5d90$@com> (Ansar Mohammed's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:15:10 -0400") Message-ID: <86od4vek1t.fsf@riemann.mri.ernet.in> References: <049601c8e895$41591f30$c40b5d90$@com> X-Organization: Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) X-Address: Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211 019, India X-URL: http://www.mri.ernet.in/ and http://www.retrotexts.net/ X-Phone: +91 (532) 2667 509, 2667 318, 2667 578, 2567 746, 2567 747 X-Fax: +91 (532) 2667 576, 2567 748, 2567 444, 2568 036 X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0x03618806 X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: C75D D0AF 457E 7454 BEC2 37AD C6E1 0407 0361 8806 X-OpenPGP-Public-Key-Available-At: http://www.keyserver.net/ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:08:23 +0530 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgsrc vs ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "N. Raghavendra" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:15:53 -0000 At 2008-07-18T01:15:10-04:00, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > Is there some definitive comparison between the ports collection and > netbsd's pkgsrc? Perhaps this could be a starter: "FreeBSD and NetBSD's pkgsrc: A strategic synergy for awesomeness", http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-April/039802.html Enjoy, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information.