From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 18:14:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A58F16A407 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:14:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F39043D6B for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:14:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id k9HIE4hS011997 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:14:04 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.5.99] (nilakantha.cs.washington.edu [128.208.5.99]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id k9HIE45C008479 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:14:04 -0700 Message-ID: <45351D40.8090908@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:13:20 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0610151557m441baf19ma2ffc0cf504f4edb@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610170417u18205402q2b9cb2eec97d70ec@mail.gmail.com> <4535028F.4080805@u.washington.edu> <20061017175735.GA20487@lambda.cultofray.net> In-Reply-To: <20061017175735.GA20487@lambda.cultofray.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.266434, Antispam-Engine: 2.4.0.264935, Antispam-Data: 2006.10.17.103942 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:14:18 -0000 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