Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:18:22 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD architecture over Linux? Message-ID: <200302181018.22800.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <20030216005228.76524.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030216005228.76524.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:52 pm, Haikal Saadh wrote: > o Debian's packaging system has optional dependencies, whilst the > closest this freebsd has is using WITH_SOMETHING or WITHOUT_SOMETHING > in while make'ing. (Either that or hack makefile :D ) Just so everyone knows, Debian's packaging system is not magical. Their optional dependencies are conceptually no different from our make variables. The major difference is that theirs works with binary packages while ours don't. And besides which, Debian is just one distro out of hundreds. This doesn't give Linux an advantage over FreeBSD, because the most common package format under Linux is still the b0rken RPMs. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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