Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:29:44 +0100 From: Joao Schim <joao@bowtie.nl> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reply to V. Velox & questions about ``evangelism'' Message-ID: <20040117202944.27da97d0.joao@bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040117000153.GA39482@pasternak.w.lub.pl> References: <008001c3dc8a$624914a0$60d0fea9@workstation> <4008807B.5090105@sitetronics.com> <20040116162613.G91963@knight.ixsystems.net> <20040117000153.GA39482@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
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The big difference i noticed between the Gentoo portage system and FreeBSD's ports is that portage is geared towards bleeding edge while freebsd ports has a stability-first notion. atleast freebsd ports never screwed up my disks by installing a fsked fdisk port. :( kind regards, Joao Schim On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:01:54 +0100 Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> wrote: > Matt Olander [Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:26:13PM -0800]: > > good question. key points I always touch on are: > > > > ports collection > > ... Gentoo Linux > ... pkgsrc > ... propably some more build systems I haven't heard of. > > >From Gentoo Linux user's perspective, Portage build system will be better, > than FreeBSD Ports, just because s/he will be able to rebuild whole system, > not only 3rd-part apps using single interface. > > Other your points are very important, there aren't many opensource operating > systems, which provide such things. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --
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