Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:05:31 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Ports tree migration to Subversion Message-ID: <20120715190531.GA16916@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <54.9F.06836.97A4AFF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <54.9F.06836.97A4AFF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:05:29PM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > pkgsrc is NetBSD's version of FreeBSD ports framework but also ported > to other, mostly (quasi-)Unix OSes including even FreeBSD. To correct a misapprehension: although many years ago pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports shared common ancestry, it is not fair to say that pkgsrc is their "version". pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports have different goals, and to that purpose, pkgsrc has been through multiple major rewrites and no longer even vaguely resembles FreeBSD ports. As well, the FreeBSD ports infrastructure has evolved substantially. IIUC pkgsrc's major goal is to run on as many OSes as possible, and to that end has to do a tremendous amount of work to evade those limitations. We don't have that problem, nor the bootstraping problems that are associated. I'm sure there are many other places where we have diverged. mcl
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