From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 22 12:42:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 047FA37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:42:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from tesla.foo.is (tesla.reverse-bias.org [217.151.166.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E7A43EE5 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from baldur@foo.is) Received: from there (eniac.foo.is [192.168.1.25]) by tesla.foo.is (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C7DAA966; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 20:41:39 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Baldur Gislason To: Ollivier Robert Subject: Re: Quote from a NetBSDer Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 20:42:17 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20021222191145.GA28129@tara.freenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20021222191145.GA28129@tara.freenix.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20021222204139.9C7DAA966@tesla.foo.is> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Heh, NetBSD's pkgsrc isn't much different, most ports have some options you can set, and it's easy to customize the ports. Debian however uses precompiled binary packages so nothing can be customized while using the package system. I frequently do 'make patch' or 'make configure' on ports and then go into the work dir to edit the sources. Baldur On Sunday 22 December 2002 19:11, you wrote: > Heard from a red-neck^W^Wdie-hard NetBSDer: > > « Using the ports system [on FreeBSD] is like using Debian and > accepting that the maintainer dictates his choices upon you. » > > Nevermind that he should speak about packages but then again I wasn't > expecting anything fair from him, seeing as fanatical as he is... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message