Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:02:44 +0100 From: Hans Nieser <h.nieser@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD Prospect <mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept) Message-ID: <43E88C64.40007@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200602071149.31772.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org> References: <200602071149.31772.mailings.freebsd@o0l0o.org>
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FreeBSD Prospect wrote: > Hi, > > Reading a lot about FreeBSD recently made me really curious. I know, that the > founder of Gentoo (the well known GNU/Linux meta-distribution, which is also > based on compiling everything from source) was using FreeBSD for some time, > before continuing creating Gentoo, what's why portage (the Gentoo software > management system) is generally based on FreeBSD's ports. [.. comparison of ports/portage features ..] I've been running Gentoo on my desktop computer for a few months and FreeBSD on my laptop / server machines. What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the way you can specify then globally and individually for each package and how you can get a nice, short overview of which USE-flags a package uses and which of them are enabled with "emerge -pv port". And also how you can find their descriptions without having to dig through Makefiles (although that's becoming less intimidating for me now that I have been using FreeBSD for half a year or so). FreeBSD-ports' config mechanism isn't too bad but not all ports seem to support these. I also remember an instance where I did a config-recursive before installing Gnome and I was still presented with one or two config menus.
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