Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:59:15 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quote from a NetBSDer Message-ID: <200212221559.15838.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <20021222191145.GA28129@tara.freenix.org> References: <20021222191145.GA28129@tara.freenix.org>
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On Sunday 22 December 2002 11:11, Ollivier Robert 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... You told that you can tweak the Makefile for a port any way you want to add/remove configure parameters, right? You also told him that one can use "make patch" and the run the configure portion by hand from within the work/ directory, right? You also told him that the ports tree using source tarballs to custom compile each app, whereas Debian's apt system uses pre-compiled binaries that one cannot change? In other words, it's an apples vs. oranges comparison. Now, if he was complaing about using pkg_add as being the same as Debian's apt, and that one cannot customise the apps, then he has a valid complaint. However, considering the fact that NetBSD's pkgsrc system is virtually identical to FreeBSD's ports, I honestly cannot see the origin of hi beef. Is he strange or something?? :) -- Freddie fcash@ocis.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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