Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:08:45 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool Message-ID: <540720ED.2010900@sorbs.net> In-Reply-To: <20140903155530.464a7649@suse3.ewadmin.local> References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> <CAOFF%2BZ1MOr9-rYbwHYWqBKjMvRPwUnew4jThEoJ_WkoTmwyNsQ@mail.gmail.com> <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> <54052891.5000104@my.hennepintech.edu> <54052DFA.4030808@freebsd.org> <54053372.6020009@my.hennepintech.edu> <5405890F.8080804@freebsd.org> <CAF-3MvNBWSEWF-HarwF0xcXQgo=7-dO%2BtvLMO1maELPY0RVhQQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140902125256.Horde.uv31ztwymThxUZ-OYPQoBw1@webmail.df.eu> <5405AE54.60809@sorbs.net> <1D2B4A91-E76C-43A0-BE75-D926357EF1AF@gmail.com> <5405E4F5.4090902@sorbs.net> <5406BD65.705@digsys.bg> <5406ED34.7090301@sorbs.net> <5406F00C.6090504@digsys.bg> <C4EC1A3A-6EB1-4EE1-ACEA-12C8E203991C@cs.huji.ac.il> <358B9E99-5E02-47BA-9E30-045986150966@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20140903155530.464a7649@suse3.ewadmin.local>
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Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Maybe Solaris or RedHat would be better platforms for those negatively > affected by this - they have very stable APIs that are supported for a > very long time. But porting non-mainstream 3rd-party software to these > OSs might be challenging, too, after a couple of years. 3rd-party > software moves on, too. > > > > Well all my applications are written in perl or ansi c (using posix calls) so they compile and run on most linux, solaris and freebsd versions without much changes (the usual issue is the libraries needed for resolver routines) Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/
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