From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 7 15:30:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CF937B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B22B43E52 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17RKYG-00026S-00; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 00:30:44 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g67Lk0nM063551 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:46:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g67Lk0IZ063550 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:46:00 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Moschuk 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. Compared to Debian and RPM the ability to do comprehensive updates from packages is missing. Install 500 ports. Wait a year for revisions, library versions, and even dependencies to change all over. Now let's upgrade all installed ports from a current set of binary packages. That sort of thing. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message