Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:46:18 +0200 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs) Message-ID: <20110908144618.GA14556@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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"Mikhail T." wrote: >Having to deal with RedHat's yum at work, I got to say, I'd rather be >building from source, than installing from "consistent packages", that >somebody else built *to their* tastes. Fedora crap is a very bad example. The canonical example of a binary distribution which *works* is Debian. You can always very easily compile a source Debian package to *your* taste, almost as easily as a FreeBSD port. You don't need to compile the hundreds of packages that sit on your hard disk, maybe you are interested in tweaking a couple of ports to your liking and you get the benefit of a much faster installation and upgrade of all the pristine packages. >No, I don't want FreeBSD to go in that direction >at all. Let RedHat cater to that market While i think that going in this direction will be very beneficial to FreeBSD and that ReHat doesn't come anywhere close to cater to this market (i work in a lab which is almost 100% RedHat since many years, and i am not happy at all with that. As much as Ubuntu is despised here, it is light years ahead of the Fedora always beta stuff). -- Michel TALON
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