From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 12:21:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0886516A47C for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:21:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ke.han@redstarling.com) Received: from smtp105.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp105.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82F0B43D46 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:21:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ke.han@redstarling.com) Received: (qmail 69681 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2006 12:21:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.20?) (ke.han@redstarling.com@218.79.209.77 with plain) by smtp105.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2006 12:21:41 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions Questions list From: ke han Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:21:41 +0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Subject: conary vs ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:21:43 -0000 Does anyone have experience with the differences between conary and ports? Its my understanding the rpath folks have rethought package management at a very high level and have something more to offer than gentoo's portage (which some feel is the closest thing in usability to FreeBSD's ports). Does anyone have a hands-on perspective of this? I don't mean that "ports already has 16,000+ ready to go ports and conary has much fewer". Nor am I looking for the usual FreeBSD vs Linux perspective. I'm looking for a tech and architecture perspective of just conary vs ports. thanks, ke han