Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:07:46 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Jason La <jasonla_@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD Packaging System Message-ID: <39A59CB2.68D29289@acuson.com> References: <F129jnzi95HfqR77bie0000019a@hotmail.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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