Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:13:26 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Presenting FreeBSD to a Linux Users Group? Message-ID: <3773FF06.D310678C@softweyr.com> References: <199906251719.NAA23009@OAAI.COM> <199906252058.QAA23295@OAAI.COM> <19990626070618.17353@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 05:04:07PM -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote:
>
> > Nevertheless dpkg is cool, so maybe you can tell me
> > if this is as cool?
> >
> > Basically dpkg has a complete dependancy tree, so you can say that
> > in order to use xxx, you also need at least version yyy of zzz.
> > This can continue at any level in the OS. If you do have something
> > out of date, I believe it can actually go out on the net and get the
> > pkg needed to update zzz, and then install it, and then continue to
> > install your original pkg.
>
> Sounds like it does a lot of what FreeBSD does.
Except in FreeBSD, you don't have to "go out on the net and get the pkg"
because pkg_add does that for you. Yup, you can pkg_add a URL and any
packages it depends on will be automagically fetched and installed if
they don't already exist on the system.
Is that cool, or what?
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