Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:48:52 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Erik Osterholm <erik-freebsd@erikosterholm.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd Message-ID: <20070304124852.0946ef57@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070302045718.GA59913@idoru.cepheid.org> References: <20070301143621.36433.qmail@web35204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45E726B6.4050507@schrodinger.com> <20070302085541.602eb85f@localhost> <20070302045718.GA59913@idoru.cepheid.org>
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:57:18 -0600 Erik Osterholm <erik-freebsd@erikosterholm.org> wrote: > No binary packages? Could have fooled me. > > From: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#ebuilds > > "For full ISO releases, we create a full suite of binary packages in > an enhanced .tbz2 format, which is .tar.bz2 compatible with > meta-information attached to the end of the file. These can be used to > install a working (though not fully optimized) version of the package > quickly and efficiently." Ah, what do you know :) thanks for making me a little bit less ignorant :) cheers! _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it." George Bernard Shaw I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.
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