Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:12:24 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: dbhost@brokersys.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? Message-ID: <3890C2C8.3620069C@twave.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001271322400.20992-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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Brett Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > > > And lo and behold, I see the first link is broken! How nice. > > Also as to RPM's, a lot of the ports in FreeBSD use Redhat > > RPM's. > > I wouldn't call 40 of 3000 a lot (about 1.3%) have a dependency on rpm. > That's an overestimate of those that actually use rpm files to build the > port as I just counted the number of ports that came up w/ a "make search > key=rpm". As for actually grabbing rpms and installing them I believe > there are 5 only ports that do this: > > linux_devtools > linux_base > popt > xgammon > logrotate > > 5 out of 3000 is not "many" in my book! > > Brett Pardon me all to hell Dave. I should have said SOME of the ports in FreeBSD use Redhat RPM's. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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