Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:36:52 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com Cc: 'Tom Judge' <tom@tomjudge.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?'Dag-Erling_=22Sm=C3=B8rgrav=22'?= <des@des.no>, 'Michel Talon' <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DPS Initial Ideas Message-ID: <17992.26100.876067.671769@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <000401c79601$2c4372e0$84ca58a0$@Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> References: <20070512004209.GA12218@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <17989.8202.624522.136573@bhuda.mired.org> <20070512090935.GA13929@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <86r6pkzhso.fsf@dwp.des.no> <46479A4A.1070103@tomjudge.com> <86wszbyko7.fsf@dwp.des.no> <000401c79601$2c4372e0$84ca58a0$@Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
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In <000401c79601$2c4372e0$84ca58a0$@Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>, Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> typed: > > There is a > > reason why people have been discussing this for ten years without > > getting anywhere. > I suspect that is because that by and large the ports system works ;-) - Having > Played around with a couple of Linux distributions - my impression is that "ports" > offers a much more manageable approach or maybe I am just used to ports ;-) You may want to look at some other Linux distros. The packages system dates to about the same era as rpm/debs. The package system is much, much more manageable than them. On the other hand, most Linux distros have moved beyond those tools, to things like yum, apt-get and up2date. Those incorporate the facilities that rpm and debs are missing in a higher-level tool, and I think they are slightly more manageable than freebsd packages. As far as I know, none of them handle updates from source at all. In fact, dealing with sources seems to be a noticable weakness for them. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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