FreeBSD Prospect wrote:
Hi,
Reading a lot about FreeBSD recently made me really curious. I know, that the
founder of Gentoo (the well known GNU/Linux meta-distribution, which is also
based on compiling everything from source) was using FreeBSD for some time,
before continuing creating Gentoo, what's why portage (the Gentoo software
management system) is generally based on FreeBSD's ports.
[.. comparison of ports/portage features ..]
I've been running Gentoo on my desktop computer for a few months and
FreeBSD on my laptop / server machines. What I am especially fond of in
portage is the USE-flags and the way you can specify then globally and
individually for each package and how you can get a nice, short overview
of which USE-flags a package uses and which of them are enabled with
"emerge -pv port". And also how you can find their descriptions without
having to dig through Makefiles (although that's becoming less
intimidating for me now that I have been using FreeBSD for half a year or so).
FreeBSD-ports' config mechanism isn't too bad but not all ports seem to
support these. I also remember an instance where I did a config-recursive
before installing Gnome and I was still presented with one or two config
menus.
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