From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 21:08:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C0A106564A for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:08:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from varga.michal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748438FC08 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so1857021ewy.13 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:08:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references :content-type:organization:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wHdHk8AsYo7bHSs4wspT3a6NFrfWG4XcR4zVtp7jsqQ=; b=g8Z5hLbAieSQX0EYh7dNuhNShphR9zhqQUW/7bQ7LxxZaFqh0omzcf9ASYTbwu6RDJ y4QfBt8z1ZR1IneIraFf88lDtRRVH+iat5pxtrV0VJSvGt/UefwsKE0U9NwfuHmv/jdk 5ca0YOBuSvExoy/9ibwZPV/R/UnJtlZbtoh7c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:organization :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=YdPMfHvaJZap8WZpzPeejofyS9Jg4aeaohId+C1amXCsoF7vJ00E029uBgy7vjuILW qzTYVkvqBm4t6UoZNPXUjoHFw41qVFH8eIzhA0Nn/QWmwbcKgbqB9as1H7aSku2kkRQp WLZmBya75lGk52WBnl7zRqGuvTIDb/JC6RS9M= Received: by 10.14.119.132 with SMTP id n4mr1098907eeh.42.1297543377102; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.101.2] (254.166.broadband10.iol.cz [90.177.166.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u1sm807247eeh.22.2011.02.12.12.42.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:42:56 -0800 (PST) From: Michal Varga To: Bahman Kahinpour In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Stonehenge Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:42:53 +0100 Message-ID: <1297543373.1491.16.camel@xenon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:08:50 -0000 On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 23:33 +0330, Bahman Kahinpour wrote: > Does anyone think that having an optional APT system somewhere like in > the Ports Collection or ... You already know where the "..." is, it's called "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD". I have been told that both its users are perfectly happy with apt-system and everything else that accompanies it and then for the rest, there's this other thing called "FreeBSD". Or are you offering yourself to develop a completely new, standalone and parallel ports-like/package infrastructure for FreeBSD and maintain it? If so, then seriously, good luck with that. > ... can be advantageous? No. m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)