From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 10:20:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30C316A421 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 10:20:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brain@winbot.co.uk) Received: from brainbox.winbot.co.uk (cpc1-mapp3-0-0-cust243.nott.cable.ntl.com [82.20.212.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374E943D49 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 10:20:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brain@winbot.co.uk) Received: from synapse.brainbox.winbot.co.uk ([10.0.0.2] helo=[192.168.1.10]) by brainbox.winbot.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FiqZs-000BwK-Al; Wed, 24 May 2006 10:26:56 +0000 Message-ID: <44743358.2020304@winbot.co.uk> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:20:08 +0100 From: Craig Edwards Organization: Crypt Software User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060508) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew McNaughton , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <20060523120100.37D2B16A54F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060523083944.H96736@eboyr.pbz> <20060524220703.K62075@a2.scoop.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060524220703.K62075@a2.scoop.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: brain@winbot.co.uk List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:20:14 -0000 > Come to that, gentoo's emerge system is pretty good, having learnt a lot > from FreeBSD's ports system, and then gone a few steps further. > > Andrew > I agree, however, i do not like the gentoo dependency upon python for its package management system. It has not broken on me yet, however i can imagine if it does it would be a nightmare to fix, as python is not a trivial program. If FreeBSD ever were to attempt an emerge-like system, it would be convenient imho (although probably less maintainable?) to have it done in something smaller and easier to manage (and easier repair when broken?) such as perl or shellscript. Craig -- "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven" -- Milton