Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 12:18:19 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@trinsec.com> To: Amy Wennings <amybsd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) Message-ID: <19990710121819.A13125@trinsec.com> In-Reply-To: <19990710020823.50029.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Amy Wennings on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:08:22PM -0500 References: <19990710020823.50029.qmail@hotmail.com>
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| I'd still like my question answered. Maybe I can put it more succinctly as | two: | | 1> What does the Debian package installation system offer that FreeBSD's | ports do not? Having run Debian in the past, I must admit it's package management system was really well put together. ``dselect'', the front end to dpkg, would retrieve the current list of packages, and you could automagically update the updated packages to the latest version. The one drawback to the ports collection is that every so often (about once a month) I have to pkg_delete and rebuild any updated ports. | 2> Can these be added to the existing system? I don't see why not. If there is enough demand, I would certainly be willing to get this started. Perhaps it could be a nice 4.0 feature. Cheers! -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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