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From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
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To: Jason La <jasonla_@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FBSD Packaging System
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Jason La wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if FBSD is working a new packaging system? The current one
> (pkg_add, pkg_delete, etc) isn't very powerful or flexible. FBSD supposedly
> supports rpms, but I have tried to install rpms on a FBSD 4.0 system, and it
> required some GNU libs that were missing.

The FBSD packages are, in a nutshell, just precompiled ports with a
simplified interface. Using the ports directly offers extreme
flexibility and power, far beyond anything RPM has, although the
downside is the time of compilation.

David


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