W dniu 2011-09-14 18:15, Christopher J. Ruwe pisze: > Matthias Andree <matthias.and...@gmx.de> wrote: > > [...] > >> I think you mentioned Arch Linux, further suggestions would be >> Gentoo Linux (you might like emerge), and further options are >> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and using a FreeBSD base system with pkgsrc >> (rather than ports) on top. > > Came as Gentoo user, abandoned Gentoo because of to many quirks > with updating packages (ebuilds). From my perspective, the > situation is better here (FreeBSD).
Really? I've been using FreeBSD for over 10 years now, Gentoo for half of that time and I can surely say that Gentoo's portage is much better than FreeBSD's ports. 1. If there's a need for sysadmin to perform some tasks after updating a port: FreeBSD - look up UPDATING and search for any of the ports you're about to update. Gentoo - update whatever you need, at the end of the process you'll get all the information you need right on the screen. 2. Libraries bumps: FreeBSD: pkg_libchk likes to show false positives. Gentoo: revdep-rebuild works like a charm. 3. Someone deleted port I like to use / I want my personal ports tree: FreeBSD: I wish :/ Gentoo: overlays works well. 4. Port's options: FreeBSD: per port options in /var/db/ports or global in /etc/make.conf. It's hard to tell during update what options are set for the port. Also if I won't look in the Makefile of a specific port I won't be able to tell if WITH_SOMETHING will work with it. Gentoo: USE flags (global and per port) are nice to use and you see all the options set in one place during the update. 5. Port's versioning: FreeBSD: most ports available in one version, hard to downgrade if new version is not what I wanted for whatever reason. Gentoo: most ports available in at least few versions, update / downgrade is not a problem. -- best regards Lukasz Wasikowski _______________________________________________ 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"
