From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 23:36:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE59237B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E4B43E42 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:36:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17SB4x-0004QE-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:35:59 +0700 Received: from regency.nsu.ru ([193.124.210.26]) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17SB4x-0004Q2-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:35:59 +0700 Received: from regency.nsu.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by regency.nsu.ru (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6A6aaLF041443; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:36:36 +0700 (NOVST) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: (from danfe@localhost) by regency.nsu.ru (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6A6aYkt041368; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:36:34 +0700 (NOVST) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:36:33 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Bill Huey Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Neil Blakey-Milner , "M. Warner Losh" , naddy@mips.inka.de Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020710133633.B35244@regency.nsu.ru> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <20020708.094652.21114246.imp@village.org> <20020709073309.GB96335@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020709082753.GA60250@mithrandr.moria.org> <20020709185010.GA26983@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020709233111.GA1651@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020709233604.GB1651@gnuppy.monkey.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020709233604.GB1651@gnuppy.monkey.org>; from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:36:04PM -0700 X-Envelope-To: billh@gnuppy.monkey.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, nbm@mithrandr.moria.org, imp@village.org, naddy@mips.inka.de Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:36:04PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:31:11PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote: > > It's DB driven, so you can do stuff like query what file a package > > belongs to, etc... The package quality is very good and well maintained. > > It's for that reason that I still use Debian/Linux as my workstation. > > I meant you can query which "package a specific file" belongs to, sorry. > > There's also a pretty solid error recovery schema if you accidently > have problem upgrading it in that you can restart the process and > it'll continue from that point on... It's definitely worth checking > out if you haven't seen it before. > > OS X's Fink project is Debian based and does very well for many that > use it in that community folks. Indeed, lots of Linux distros out there had acquired Debian packaging system for its robustness, convenience, and reliability. Heck, Mandrake was RPM based until recently, same does apply to SuSE and Russian ALT Linux AFAIK. People tend to drop RPM in favor of apt-based package repository and tools, which is, at least, a good indication of that Debian packaging system is something quite worth looking into. Just my $.02 ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message