Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:04:07 -0400 From: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Presenting FreeBSD to a Linux Users Group? Message-ID: <199906252058.QAA23295@OAAI.COM> In-Reply-To: <199906251719.NAA23009@OAAI.COM>
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> I stopped using Linux (RedHat) a little over 2 years ago, but one of > my worst memories was constantly fighting with RPM. I can't speak for RH, I've only seen the Debian stuff. I'm pushing Apple to use it, but in retrospect I'm thinking maybe they shouldn't, because it's GPL'ed and I'm not sure I like the side effects of GPL. Nevertheless dpkg is cool, so maybe you can tell me if this is as cool? Basically dpkg has a complete dependancy tree, so you can say that in order to use xxx, you also need at least version yyy of zzz. This can continue at any level in the OS. If you do have something out of date, I believe it can actually go out on the net and get the pkg needed to update zzz, and then install it, and then continue to install your original pkg. Is there something similar for FreeBSD (forgive me, I'm new to this)? If there isn't, would anyone reading this be interested in making one with me? > it's changed substantially in the last 2 years, but my experience with > the ports/pkg system has been pleasant and stress free. Me too now that I think of it! I wanted a nice editor (don't say vi, please) so the boss showed me the package system on our FreeBSD box, and we had pico (inside pine) installed in a few seconds. It was nice, although on the Apple side of things I'd much prefer a Cocoa GUI (as opposed to char graphics), and I'd be happy to write that part myself. Maury To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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