Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:51:56 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020711005155.GC82744@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020708024404.GC83084@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <agacqn$1tv4$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20020708024404.GC83084@gits.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:44:04AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 09:45:59PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been doing some thinking lately about our ports system versus what
> > > other systems have adopted and was curious as to what people think on
> > > the subject? What does FreeBSD do well? Where can we improve? How does it
> > > rate against the umpteen Linux flavours?
> >
> > Compared to OpenBSD, the FreeBSD ports system lacks FAKE, FLAVORS,
> > and MULTI_PACKAGES. regress would be nice, too.
>
> it seems they also support multi-level ports such as mutt/{stable,snapshot}.
>
> Compared to NetBSD, the FreeBSD ports system lacks non-static version
> dependencies (DEPENDS) and CONFLICTS. also, what's that buildlink stuff ?
Cyrille.
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