From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 21: 9: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FD537B400; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta04.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79C943E4A; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 21:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20020906040902.RHNI27337.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:09:02 +1000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020906141026.01d9c0c0@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:14:04 +1000 To: Giorgos Keramidas From: Rob B Subject: Re: LOOK AT WHAT DEBIAN HAS! Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20020905172122.GB9499@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020905112256.679edc04.johann@broadpark.no> <20020904215349.6b4335da.johann@broadpark.no> <20020905023647.GD76893@vectors.cx> <20020905112256.679edc04.johann@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 20:21 5/09/2002 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas sent this up the stick: >On 2002-09-05 11:22 +0000, Janine C.Buorditez wrote: > > > > you ponder on what you wrote. > > an aptitude for freebsd would be a freebsd ports management system. > > stop trolling, a decent font manager for freebsd wouldn't hurt either. > >Would anyone who is experienced in both systems (FreeBSD and Debian) >please explain to me, and others on the list who have no Debian clue, >what is the functionality of these? Until that is done, the only >reasonable answer one can give is "I don't know what you're talking >about". Even after that is explained, one of the most probable >answers is "FreeBSD doesn't have these because nobody has written >anything like that for it". From the package desciptions: "Defoma, which stands for DEbian FOnt MAnager, provides a framework of automatic font configuration. An application whose configuration of fonts requires users' hand can make the configuration process automated through Defoma, by installing a Defoma-configuration script to Defoma. The script gets called whenever a font is installed and removed, so that the script updates the configuration. Font packages should register their fonts to Defoma in order to have them configured automatically for applications." "aptitude is a curses-based apt frontend with a number of useful extended features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and extreme flexibility and customization. . aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken." Cheers, rob -- Childrens books that didn't make it: Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book This is random quote 329 of a collection of 1248 [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message