Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:22:28 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20120602052228.GA6624@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <2730bd1bab4223e718193254cb8bbd60@dizum.com> References: <CAOgwaMvsv3e1TxDauV038Pp7LRiYeH7oAODE%2Bw-pxHt9oGrXMA@mail.gmail.com> <2730bd1bab4223e718193254cb8bbd60@dizum.com>
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:20:39PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Maybe FreeBSD should consider migrating to pkgsrc? I'm not arguing that your other points are invalid (in particular, I agree that the xorg change was really painful, and for a long time amd64 lagged i386 badly), but there is one very major blocker for this particular idea. If you browse the following URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/PackageSystemsComparison You'll see that pkgsrc is around 12k packages. Although our graph is stale, per the portsmon/FreshPorts URLs, we're approaching 24k ports. So: while it's been suggested before, it's not really workable. mcl
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