From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 10:56:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9207F16A41F for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:56:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beyert@cs.ucr.edu) Received: from mxsf02.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf02.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFACB43D53 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:56:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beyert@cs.ucr.edu) Received: from mxip01a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip01a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.131]) by mxsf02.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7KAuZS1015408 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:56:35 -0400 Received: from 66-215-246-57.dhcp.rvsd.ca.charter.com (HELO aeonserv.aeonnet) ([66.215.246.57]) by mxip01a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 20 Aug 2005 06:56:35 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.96,127,1122868800"; d="scan'208"; a="1169644741:sNHT240447918" Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:00:24 -0700 Message-ID: <87pss8zxdj.wl%beyert@cs.ucr.edu> From: Timothy Beyer To: Ross Kendall Axe In-Reply-To: <43070829.1090204@axe.homelinux.net> References: <4306EAB7.4090001@skyforge.net> <87r7cozzqo.wl%beyert@cs.ucr.edu> <43070829.1090204@axe.homelinux.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 17) (Jumbo Shrimp) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Timothy Beyer , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDLinux OS X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:56:39 -0000 At Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:38:33 +0100, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Timothy Beyer wrote: > > > Actually I have followed tutorials for setting up pkgsrc on Slackware > > in the past and I was quite happy with the system. (trust me, you'd > > have to be insane to use Slackware's package system, it really is that > > bad) > > > > --Tim > > I guess I must be insane then. Seriously, there's nothing terribly > wrong with Slackware's package system. It's simple and reliable, which > is more than can be said for many of the competitors. > Take that comment of mine worth a grain of salt, since I can't say that I've had a lot of experience using Slackware's packages. I just remember when I used to use Slackware it was hard to get some packages working if they came from third parties and required a lot of libraries. Granted, the situation may have changed since then, (or maybe I just wasn't proficient at using the package system) and I don't use Linux often these days, so I can't really say much about that. I will say that I was quite pleased with pkgsrc on Slackware, though. Especially with it's BSD-ish init system. --Tim