From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 22 16: 0:19 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 6F87B37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:00:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ocis.net (mailserver.ocis.net [209.52.173.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DBC43ED8 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from host64.wireless.kamloops.net ([64.114.144.93] helo=spark.sd73.bc.ca) by mail.ocis.net with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 18QG0q-0006qp-00; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:00:05 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Freddie Cash Reply-To: fcash@ocis.net To: Ollivier Robert Subject: Re: Quote from a NetBSDer Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:59:15 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021222191145.GA28129@tara.freenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20021222191145.GA28129@tara.freenix.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212221559.15838.fcash@ocis.net> 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 On Sunday 22 December 2002 11:11, Ollivier Robert wrote: > Heard from a red-neck^W^Wdie-hard NetBSDer: > =09=AB Using the ports system [on FreeBSD] is like using Debian and > accepting that the maintainer dictates his choices upon you. =BB > 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=20 add/remove configure parameters, right? You also told him that one can use "make patch" and the run the=20 configure portion by hand from within the work/ directory, right? You also told him that the ports tree using source tarballs to custom=20 compile each app, whereas Debian's apt system uses pre-compiled=20 binaries that one cannot change? In other words, it's an apples vs.=20 oranges comparison. Now, if he was complaing about using pkg_add as being the same as=20 Debian's apt, and that one cannot customise the apps, then he has a=20 valid complaint. However, considering the fact that NetBSD's pkgsrc=20 system is virtually identical to FreeBSD's ports, I honestly cannot see=20 the origin of hi beef. Is he strange or something?? :) --=20 Freddie fcash@ocis.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message