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Kirktis wrote:
It may be worth noting at this point that portage runs (quite well, from what I hear / have seen) on FreeBSD.
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:05:01 -0800, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, this was exactly the thought that started to roll around in my head after the last couple replies... Ports sounds very similar to Portage but does it have all the nice options/features of emerge?
Is anyone currently using FreeBSD and can you tell me what the status of this is? How does one see what other packages will be installed when you "make install" of some app? And is there yet any tool yet to check and rebuild dependent libraries? Revdep-rebuild has saved my ass a couple times.
Keep it coming... I'm loving this.
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Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
A short period of installing servers with FreeBSD, led me to use Gentoo. I still have one BSD server and I'm waiting for an opportunity to replace it also. the reason is maintenance. in gentoo, when you run emerge -uav ... you see a list of what it will install and with what options. in ports, it's very difficult to see what will be installed, and almost impossible to see what are the options it will be installed with (unless you're going to read the makefiles of all the ports you install and their dependencies - in 5.x they are starting to deal with it but the last time I looked it's far from being complete). also, there is no revdep-rebuild so you have to test every application that depends on a library you just installed (or run portupgrade -r). all of these make it much harder to maintain.
Bye
