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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
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On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, rob wrote:

> nice features, but having a ports collection would be so cool, and so

Gentoo Linux has a ports-like system (called "portage"). It is based on
python.

NetBSD's pkgsrc is used under Red Hat Linux.

It seems like I have heard of others.

> much easier for novice users.

As long as the package source collection is well tested (i.e. dependencies
work).

   Jeremy C. Reed
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