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Date:      Sun, 3 Apr 2011 10:35:08 +0200
From:      Romain Garbage <romain.garbage@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port dependencies
Message-ID:  <BANLkTi=7oTACCOvtfaog7KcoDLMpPgaTJQ@mail.gmail.com>
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2011/4/3 Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org>:
>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0seriously, this is why i want that debian+fre=
ebsd that was
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0discussed recently. =C2=A0the kernel is ours =
and number one in the
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0world. =C2=A0and the ports stuff is basically=
 packages that more/less
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0just-work. =C2=A0you can get the src =3Dwith=
=3D the pkg.
>>
>
> How does debian get around all the "make config" options that we deal wit=
h?
> =C2=A0Such as does such and such package pull in samba... =C2=A0Or does d=
ebian just
> compile with every option more or less enabled?

"Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the
GNU C library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular
Debian package set." from http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

So it seems they basically use their own packages and not the ports.

Romain



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