On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Michael Poole <mdpo...@troilus.org> wrote: > Honest question: How can one defend the claim that dpkg suffers from > "meta-package-system-of-the-week" (apt has been around for something > like a decade) without saying the same about FreeBSD (cvsup, csup, > freebsd-update, etc -- and ports has even more to worry about)?
Because most of the people claiming ports are better than apt/dpkg are talking about OpenBSD's ports, not FreeBSD's. FreeBSD has long suffered from a lack of focus and clarity, and it shows. Not quite as unfocused as Linux has traditionally been, but they've been inching ever so slowly that way. -Zach
