Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:26:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> To: wblock@wonkity.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg? Message-ID: <201407252126.s6PLQ5G2086889@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407251459370.72188@wonkity.com> <CAG=rPVcyqq2072%2BgF_X91BocxykJB6%2BU0cMhaNexxfVFpVqUbA@mail.gmail.com> <CAG=rPVfBcci_fqAKW4j530QVY-OALu51ZjtVoM5n%2BmPg=LJLXQ@mail.gmail.com>
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In article <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407251459370.72188@wonkity.com> you write: >Writing "an article" is hard. Writing a small section on how deleting >packages is different between pkg and, say, apt, is much easier. The >scope is known. Indeed, it's pretty trivial. I think the sort of article Craig was looking for was more on the order of apt command pkg command apt-get update pkg update (*1) ... ... (*1) Explanation of differences between how apt behaves and how pkg behaves. The set of common apt operations is pretty well-known, and most of them have direct pkg(8) equivalents. -GAWollman
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