From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 16:18:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B7A16A419 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:18:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D6113C45B for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D839208A; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:18:29 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F40A2087; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:18:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 112A5844B6; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:18:29 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Mike Meyer References: <84a208a0801232306k6a34134aqd549a1ba2160fe41@mail.gmail.com> <4798479B.9030406@delphij.net> <20080124185522.23ca743f@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:18:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080124185522.23ca743f@bhuda.mired.org> (Mike Meyer's message of "Thu\, 24 Jan 2008 18\:55\:22 -0500") Message-ID: <864pd15163.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacker 101 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:18:38 -0000 Mike Meyer writes: > GNU/Linux isn't tied to rpm's; Actually, rpm is part of the Linux Standard Base specification, which all major distributions implement. Debian derivatives use dpkg, but still have a full set of rpm tools. Most distributions have higher- level package management tools built on top of either rpm (like yum) or dpkg (like apt), and in most cases the lower-level tools are only used if something goes wrong. > there are other packaging systems in use by different distros, > including at least one that is based on the BSD ports system. s/based on/inspired by/ if you're thinking of Gentoo. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no