From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 05:22:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67A1106564A for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 05:22:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855688FC0A for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 05:22:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id EBBC456205; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:22:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:22:28 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: Nomen Nescio Message-ID: <20120602052228.GA6624@lonesome.com> References: <2730bd1bab4223e718193254cb8bbd60@dizum.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2730bd1bab4223e718193254cb8bbd60@dizum.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:22:29 -0000 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