From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 18 10:18:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B9837B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:18:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D78B43F85 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:18:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HAI001D9O5GNX@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:10:59 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-133.acuson.com ([157.226.46.133]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R0PXLT; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:12:22 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:18:22 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: BSD architecture over Linux? In-reply-to: <20030216005228.76524.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> To: Haikal Saadh , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Message-id: <200302181018.22800.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030216005228.76524.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:52 pm, Haikal Saadh wrote: > o Debian's packaging system has optional dependencies, whilst the > closest this freebsd has is using WITH_SOMETHING or WITHOUT_SOMETHING > in while make'ing. (Either that or hack makefile :D ) Just so everyone knows, Debian's packaging system is not magical. Their optional dependencies are conceptually no different from our make variables. The major difference is that theirs works with binary packages while ours don't. And besides which, Debian is just one distro out of hundreds. This doesn't give Linux an advantage over FreeBSD, because the most common package format under Linux is still the b0rken RPMs. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message