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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:09:28 +0100
From:      Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20070322110928.000014eb@shire>
In-Reply-To: <200703211356.46545.fcash@ocis.net>
References:  <b41c75520703211331p1454e186h95e5d628afe12248@mail.gmail.com> <14989d6e0703211349j392f87b7idd2453c2830d0706@mail.gmail.com> <200703211356.46545.fcash@ocis.net>

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:56:46 -0700
Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 01:49 pm, Christian Walther wrote:
> > The other one is http://www.blastwave.org
> > There is a nice script called "pkg-add" available, that is similar
> > to apt-get.
> 
> Wouldn't pkgsrc be a better system to use, for someone coming from 
> FreeBSD?

No. FreeBSD is very good in building from source. The ports system
makes sure it is. Building on solaris often means removing of linuxism
in Makefiles or software that *only* compiles with GCC (stupid).
Plus you need an up2date building environment like a recent version of
Nevada (the developers edition from februari is very good).

If you want bleeding edge packages you do something like "pkgadd -i
package" and everything (including all depts) are installed. This is
using Blastwave. It takes some extra diskspace but with modern prices,
who cares..

-- 
Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE
++ http://nagual.nl/ | Solaris 10 11/06 ++



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