Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:02:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg? Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1407271900470.21571@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <53D34B3C.9060209@my.hennepintech.edu> References: <CAG=rPVcyqq2072%2BgF_X91BocxykJB6%2BU0cMhaNexxfVFpVqUbA@mail.gmail.com> <CAG=rPVfBcci_fqAKW4j530QVY-OALu51ZjtVoM5n%2BmPg=LJLXQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407251459370.72188@wonkity.com> <20140726050648.GA14755@exhan.dylanleigh.net> <53D34B3C.9060209@my.hennepintech.edu>
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2014.07.26 00:06, Dylan Leigh wrote: >> The big difference between them from a user POV is that pkg >> still requires a bit of knowledge of ports and how it works >> (what options are, categories etc.) whereas using apt requires >> no knowledge of the Ubuntu package infrastructure or how .deb >> files are built. > Well, to be fair, do .deb packages really have options? It's been a while since > I've used them, but IIRC, if you were to just not tell the user what the > options are, it would be the same as a .deb package. The major linux distributions which use .deb-format packages do not have anything which might be said to resemble the options available from the FreeBSD ports framework. That said, .deb is basically just a file format, and an individual could tweak the makefile used to build such packages to include options-like functionality, on a per-package basis. -Ben
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