Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:41:21 +0200 From: Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu Message-ID: <20070419204121.3ac08aeb.coolzone@it.dk> In-Reply-To: <8b4c81f0704191037j6611f32ch26463df4c635dfd4@mail.gmail.com> References: <1176551927.6799.9.camel@FreeBSD.localhost> <8b4c81f0704190933m6a34fcek98a391d7f0325bb1@mail.gmail.com> <4627A10F.4030305@makeworld.com> <8b4c81f0704191037j6611f32ch26463df4c635dfd4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:37:27 -0300 "Henry Lenzi" <henry.lenzi@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/19/07, Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote: > > Henry Lenzi wrote: > > > I find nothing brilliant in Debian's package management. It's heavily > > > dependent upon human intervention and just adds a layer of complexity > > > on top of a problem that was *already solved* in the Unix world, by > > > using Make files. Do they have a better backtracking algorithm then > > > Make? No. > > > > I don't understand this at all. > > It's quite obvious you don't. Neither do you! > > Assuming that Ubuntu's package > > management is nearly the same as Debian's (by means of apt-get etc.) > > then how do you figure it's heavily dependent on human intervention? > > > > Have you ever seen the process whereby Debian (and I keep saying > Debian because Ubuntu just piggybacks on the Debian developers) > releases packages? > > Their package management system is supposed to be about handling > dependencies automatically. Well, I'm not sure you've quite noticed > this, that FreeBSD (and the other BSDs) *also* handle dependencies > automatically. How? Because of the Magic Makefiles and its > backtracking algorithm! Well, funny, huh. No need to reinvent the > wheel, as 3 BSD Unixes demonstrate daily. > Stop comparing things which aren't comparable! *BSD ports system handles dependencies in a completely different manner and its building upon source. apt-get uses binary packages. The two systems has nothing in common.
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