Hans Nieser wrote: > 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.
I've been using linux since '95 and freebsd since '98 (more heavily (98% of boxen) since 02)...and I have to say that after using it in production environment, RHE is quite painful to go back to (rpms too limiting,etc,etc) *NOT* trying to flame, just stating my POV .I have to say that Gentoo is definitely an improvement on all that, and I use it in my PVR box (since linux has better support for the hardware :-( ) > 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). you can use pkgtools.conf and the port* tools, you can define variables based on regular expressions (i.e., I have * => [ WITHOUT_IPV6=true] , so no port* enables IPV6. Works quite well. Again, once you have a version of the port that works well for you, just make a package from your installed files and keep a copy of that ;-) *built with portinstall / portupgrade , NOT via the (cd /usr/ports/[category]/[portdir]/make process... make uses /etc/make.conf...but this method definitively lacks the granularity of pkgtools.conf. B _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"