From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 2:29:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414FE37B8B2 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378C244414 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 02:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johann@broadpark.no) Received: from aegis.terrabionic.com (ninja.terrabionic.com [217.13.29.51]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FEBE7D24; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:23:01 +0200 (MEST) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:22:56 +0200 From: Janine C.Buorditez To: Adam Weinberger Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LOOK AT WHAT DEBIAN HAS! Message-Id: <20020905112256.679edc04.johann@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20020905023647.GD76893@vectors.cx> References: <20020904215349.6b4335da.johann@broadpark.no> <20020905023647.GD76893@vectors.cx> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you ponder on what you wrote. an aptitude for freebsd would be a freebsd ports management system. stop trolling, a decent font manager for freebsd wouldn't hurt either. people like you shouldn't be on this list. --janine On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:36:47 -0700 Adam Weinberger wrote: > aptitude? here is an explanation of why we do not have an ncurses > frontend to the debian package management system in the ports tree: > > are you sitting down for this? > > *freebsd is not debian*. > > ponder this for awhile. > > now. using this fantastic newfound knowledge, try to guess why the > DEbian FOnt MAnager isn't in the ports tree. > > -Adam > > > > > look at their packages like APTITUDE and DEFORMA -- why can't we have > > > stuff like that? > > > -- > "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." > -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" > Adam Weinberger > adam@vectors.cx > http://vectors.cx > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message