From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 3 22:19:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBBC106566B for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3E68FC0C for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4344FE80630; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:19:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Romain Garbage Message-ID: <20110403221957.GC25857@thought.org> References: <4D96668C.3090406@telting.org> <4d97ba5a.199K2FcyLXA6+b5f%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <9BFF22F1-7559-4107-B149-94A79CA3ADB7@d3photography.com> <20110403014303.GC18031@thought.org> <4D97E46D.1000202@telting.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24++ years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Chris Telting , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port dependencies 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: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:19:58 -0000 On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:35:08AM +0200, Romain Garbage wrote: > 2011/4/3 Chris Telting : > > > >>        seriously, this is why i want that debian+freebsd that was > >>        discussed recently.  the kernel is ours and number one in the > >>        world.  and the ports stuff is basically packages that more/less > >>        just-work.  you can get the src =with= the pkg. > >> > > > > How does debian get around all the "make config" options that we deal with? > >  Such as does such and such package pull in samba...  Or does debian just > > compile with every option more or less enabled? > > "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the > GNU C library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular > Debian package set." from http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ > > So it seems they basically use their own packages and not the ports. > > Romain Well, so then _this_ is ho w thei r stuff works together. It is all from the deb packages. gary Ps: i'm glad i quit porting our libc to the gnu world back in 199[?]. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org