Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:07:15 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and Packages Mixture Message-ID: <20010520000715.A60427@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20010519212235.60872.qmail@web13604.mail.yahoo.com>; from bzdik@yahoo.com on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:22:35PM -0700 References: <15110.20116.161437.414956@guru.mired.org> <20010519212235.60872.qmail@web13604.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat 2001-05-19 (14:22), Bzdik BSD wrote:
> I asked this question before: why not incorporate [something like] apt
> from Debian?
>
> The only answer I got the last time that pkg_add is superior no matter
> what. Why does one need to delete both and then to re-install one of
> them? Most of you are administrators, wouldn't it save you some
> valuable time? Is it a "not made here" thing? This would be a killer:
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> has no analogy in any other Unix, even in the cleanest of them all -
> OpenBSD ;-))
> please, enlighten in case I missed some fundamental Constitutional
> issue here. don't try "license" song, I said [something like] apt.
> last time Debian people raised the issue of possible incorporation
> FreeBSD kernel the excuse was the license "conflict", yet the
> underlying was the fear of losing control by some "authorities" among
> "leadership". Isn't FreeBSD free of this infantile crap? {dream on...}
One assumes it's because dpkg and apt are currently GPL. libapt will be
LGPL, iirc. That still isn't considered sufficient.
Debian's package system is great. Too bad we can't share it.
Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
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