From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 17:59:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B59BC37B424 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 17:59:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 28066 invoked by uid 100); 20 May 2001 00:59:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15111.5883.866364.512987@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 19:59:39 -0500 To: Bzdik BSD Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and Packages Mixture In-Reply-To: <78544406@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bzdik BSD types: > I asked this question before: why not incorporate [something like] apt > from Debian? The package system *is* "something like" apt. pkg_update will replace all installed versions of a package and propogate dependencies. pkg_add just adds packags without removing the old ones, which can cause problems. > please, enlighten in case I missed some fundamental Constitutional > issue here. don't try "license" song, I said [something like] apt. We've got "something like" apt. If there are some features from it that you'd like, you need to provide more details. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message