Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:45:59 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <agacqn$1tv4$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net>
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Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org> wrote: > I've been doing some thinking lately about our ports system versus what > other systems have adopted and was curious as to what people think on > the subject? What does FreeBSD do well? Where can we improve? How does it > rate against the umpteen Linux flavours? Compared to OpenBSD, the FreeBSD ports system lacks FAKE, FLAVORS, and MULTI_PACKAGES. regress would be nice, too. Compared to Debian and RPM the ability to do comprehensive updates from packages is missing. Install 500 ports. Wait a year for revisions, library versions, and even dependencies to change all over. Now let's upgrade all installed ports from a current set of binary packages. That sort of thing. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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