Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:13:20 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <45351D40.8090908@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061017175735.GA20487@lambda.cultofray.net> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0610151557m441baf19ma2ffc0cf504f4edb@mail.gmail.com> <a25afc300610162031xb097cb4qbea67d08436e41ec@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610170417u18205402q2b9cb2eec97d70ec@mail.gmail.com> <4535028F.4080805@u.washington.edu> <20061017175735.GA20487@lambda.cultofray.net>
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Raymond Pasco wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:19:27AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> I'd like to see portage in FBSD though, since ruby is pretty kludgy. >> > You'd like to port a knockoff of ports to a system that has ports? > (also, not sure what you're referring to with your 'ruby' comment.) > > In my experience, people develop on Linux and Linux distributions more, > just because it's the current `popular' system. FreeBSD is still (imo) > better, though, despite its smaller following. > No; you guys misunderstood what I meant... Unless you do make install / deinstall for all your ports in your system and magically know when and which ports to upgrade when the time comes to upgrade them, you're probably using portupdate / portinstall, or one of the ruby based metapackages (portman for instance). Having less packages on a system in order to keep it up to date is key in many cases, and I believe that perl is a more widely used language than ruby is. That's why I made the comment I made. -Garrett
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