On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:06:08PM +0400, Alexander Bubnov wrote: > Why FreeBSD does not use pkgsrc of NetBSD project as default ports?
You're able to do so if you like -- FreeBSD is a supported pkgsrc platform IIUC. OTOH, there are some things FreeBSD ports are able to do that pkgsrc can't (e.g. follow port renames/recategorizations by MOVED during port upgrades). The converse is true, as well. There are also the following data which might be of interest. Note: for FreeBSD and pkgsrc, I'm using the number of things that are buildable from source; but for OpenBSD, I'm using the number of binary packages that are available for the i386 platform (but only because I don't have a quick way to figure out the equivalent ports count, which is higher. Hopefully, someone will inform me.) Therefore, this is a _slightly_ apples vs. oranges comparision, but it still may be informative. FreeBSD 20730* pkgsrc 8458** OpenBSD 5379*** mcl * per FreshPorts.org ** per pkgsrc.org *** from an OpenBSD web page; again, this is undercounting _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
