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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 2020 21:52:06 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Evilham <contact@evilham.com>, Viktor Madarasz <viktormadarasz@sdf.org>
Subject:   Re: Question (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20200408215206.c270316b.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAEJNuHwUUxFsYd5GeD-OtHO6uaLDujKsymAX5=2dGhCiJkkqBQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004070755410.29692@sdf.lonestar.org> <fd51e9d5-4499-41ad-8c33-a0481eb26ad1@yggdrasil.evilham.com> <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004081537450.9589@otaku.sdf.org> <20200408200149.8d6464a3.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004081809570.23527@otaku.sdf.org> <20200408202549.873d7b41.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAEJNuHwUUxFsYd5GeD-OtHO6uaLDujKsymAX5=2dGhCiJkkqBQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 20:08:17 +0100, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 19:25, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 18:10:59 +0000 (UTC), Viktor Madarasz wrote:
> > > Well the only thing it reminds me is the system slackware used called
> > > Slackbuilds.. seems remotely similar..
> >
> > Yes, there is (was?) something comparable over in Linux land.
> > If I remember correctly, Gentoo also supported a more or less
> > standardized infrastructure to obtain sources from a repository
> > and build applications from it, instead of manually downloading
> > tar-balls, extracting them, "./configure && make && make install",
> > or, today's fashion, "curl myapp.example.com | sudo bash". Wait,
> > today git must always be involved... :-)
> 
> 
> Err... what about pkgsrc? It evolved from FreeBSD ports. I use it to
> compile and install applications on Debian.

Yes! Exactly that slipped my mind. I haven't used Debian for
years, but of course how pkgsrc worked was quite comparable
to FreeBSD, I remember that. :-)


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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