From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 9 10:23:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3A915667 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA11448; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:22:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:22:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: "'Nate'" , gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF6FDAE9@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -chat and out of -questions] On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > This, IMHO, is a great idea!!! I have been playing with FreeBSD for > some months now. And the kernel Kicks Ass!!! It just 'feels' better > too. But the package installation and management is terrible. It took > me at least 3 weeks to figure it out. Note I've never used Debian (only ever RH Linux for a bit), but why is cd /usr/ports/some_port_dir/some_port make install clean hard to figure out? Did you read the handbook? Have you tried using pib? (Ports Index Browser - /usr/ports/sysutils/pib) That said, there is a new, still in development, package system in the works. Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message