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Subject: Re: Presenting FreeBSD to a Linux Users Group?
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:04:07 -0400
From: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM>
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> I stopped using Linux (RedHat) a little over 2 years ago, but one of 
> my worst memories was constantly fighting with RPM.

  I can't speak for RH, I've only seen the Debian stuff.  I'm  
pushing Apple to use it, but in retrospect I'm thinking maybe they  
shouldn't, because it's GPL'ed and I'm not sure I like the side  
effects of GPL.  Nevertheless dpkg is cool, so maybe you can tell me  
if this is as cool?

  Basically dpkg has a complete dependancy tree, so you can say that  
in order to use xxx, you also need at least version yyy of zzz.   
This can continue at any level in the OS.  If you do have something  
out of date, I believe it can actually go out on the net and get the  
pkg needed to update zzz, and then install it, and then continue to  
install your original pkg.

  Is there something similar for FreeBSD (forgive me, I'm new to  
this)?  If there isn't, would anyone reading this be interested in  
making one with me?

> it's changed substantially in the last 2 years, but my experience with 
> the ports/pkg system has been pleasant and stress free.

  Me too now that I think of it!  I wanted a nice editor (don't say  
vi, please) so the boss showed me the package system on our FreeBSD  
box, and we had pico (inside pine) installed in a few seconds.  It  
was nice, although on the Apple side of things I'd much prefer a  
Cocoa GUI (as opposed to char graphics), and I'd be happy to write  
that part myself.

Maury


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