From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 20 14:50:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 649DF16A40F for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:50:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264B343D49 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id k3so306181ugf for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:50:06 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=fdP+I12xUYd/k6++k38jwWAnP99GGCHa5N230ycQMi1Cfak+OBOvkZ68h62JmKRIzOs+/HGc0OPfP4bqt/DXG8uKpppSuXpkKBSVZD4QUDqlpF5vlDlBfSTGVmeJSfPdu45FFpUHjnJNdF/pCaGjA4I3lLcTLAylOD/INZeGkjE= Received: by 10.78.204.20 with SMTP id b20mr2082510hug; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.167.16 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:49:56 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "ke han" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: da7fa825920dfffb Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 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 14:50:13 -0000 On 10/20/06, ke han wrote: > 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. I took a look at their whitepaper, which btw makes a nice reading for porters, as part of my ongoing research. The idea is cool, but not ground-breaking. And anyway, it's not the ideas, but their exchange that make the wheels turning in package management. Should you be interested in other ideas, please look through a list of package management related links: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/Upak/PMS_Links If you think you could take part in taking Conary's or any other system's advances into ports, or into packaging world at large, it would be my pleasure to join the effort. Thanks!