On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> wrote: > Although a lot of package systems bear some similarities, I'm not aware of a > Linux distro that's using the ports system like either FreeBSD/NetBSD or the > Mac does, although I don't exactly go around comparing distros, so I might > have missed it. But ports on FreeBSD originated somewhere around 1993 or > 1994, which makes it older than most Linux distros except maybe Slackware.
I guess that Gentoo's Portage system would be an example of a system that borrows from BSD ports, but that's another path to walk down. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
