Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:36:04 -0700 From: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, naddy@mips.inka.de, Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020709233604.GB1651@gnuppy.monkey.org> In-Reply-To: <20020709233111.GA1651@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <agacqn$1tv4$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20020708.094652.21114246.imp@village.org> <20020709073309.GB96335@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020709082753.GA60250@mithrandr.moria.org> <20020709185010.GA26983@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020709233111.GA1651@gnuppy.monkey.org>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:31:11PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote: > It's DB driven, so you can do stuff like query what file a package > belongs to, etc... The package quality is very good and well maintained. > It's for that reason that I still use Debian/Linux as my workstation. I meant you can query which "package a specific file" belongs to, sorry. There's also a pretty solid error recovery schema if you accidently have problem upgrading it in that you can restart the process and it'll continue from that point on... It's definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it before. OS X's Fink project is Debian based and does very well for many that use it in that community folks. bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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