Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:35:18 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: 'Tom Judge' <tom@tomjudge.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com, 'Michel Talon' <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: DPS Initial Ideas Message-ID: <861whjscbd.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <17992.26100.876067.671769@bhuda.mired.org> (Mike Meyer's message of "Mon\, 14 May 2007 09\:36\:52 -0400") References: <20070512004209.GA12218@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <17989.8202.624522.136573@bhuda.mired.org> <20070512090935.GA13929@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <86r6pkzhso.fsf@dwp.des.no> <46479A4A.1070103@tomjudge.com> <86wszbyko7.fsf@dwp.des.no> <000401c79601$2c4372e0$84ca58a0$@Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <17992.26100.876067.671769@bhuda.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes: > You may want to look at some other Linux distros. The packages system > dates to about the same era as rpm/debs. The package system is much, > much more manageable than them. On the other hand, most Linux distros > have moved beyond those tools, to things like yum, apt-get and > up2date. Those incorporate the facilities that rpm and debs are > missing in a higher-level tool, and I think they are slightly more > manageable than freebsd packages. > > As far as I know, none of them handle updates from source at all. In > fact, dealing with sources seems to be a noticable weakness for them. apt-get --build source <package-name> DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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