Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:42:02 +0200 From: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: harder and harder to avoid pkg Message-ID: <CAO%2BPfDfLtw6OjPvrMC5hzfEL1CH7wyLZ0=RQstqZrRmOmk5pxA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <00f3768e-f57a-661c-aa62-89cdf10926bd@netfence.it> References: <638fe078-80db-2492-90be-f1280eb8d445@freebsd.org> <20161012092403.66a41d9e@freedom.alkumuna.eu> <00f3768e-f57a-661c-aa62-89cdf10926bd@netfence.it>
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2016-10-12 10:04 GMT+02:00 Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>: > On 10/12/16 09:24, Matthieu Volat wrote: > >> And GNU/Linuxes can be a PITA when you have to track -dev(el) packages >> (which sometimes really requires -bin, -app or whatever), or worst, describe >> to people how they are supposed to build your software with weird subpackage >> names. >> >> I really like that ports provides the software project as intended by >> upstream (modulo options). > > > Just a "me too" here! Could not agree more. Please forget that idea. I just hate having to install libfoo, libfoo-dev, libfoo-dbg, libfoo-doc, libfoo-whatever each time I need to develop on Linux. Please do not transform FreeBSD as a Linux distribution :) I love the way FreeBSD and some very sparse Linux distributions provide the packages exactly how it would be installed by hand (= vanilla). FreeBSD offers some options and very few changes for better integration but packages are provided vanilla. You want a package? You install /packagename/ nothing more, nothing less. I really would like to see simple vanilla packages for the next 10 years. The FreeBSD ports is already extremely complicated, do not make it even harder :( Regards, -- Demelier David
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