On Aug 4, 2012, at 00:06, Bodo Kaiser <kyog...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> @ryan > > I only can speak about my experience with FreeBSD Ports. > > In my opinion the work you have to put in for (administrating) compiling > software and the benefits you are getting out of it are hard unbalanced. > > In today's time software is a lot module based. I know from my gentoo time > that compiling an own kernel didn't speed up anything... at least if we use > an initramfs image to load modules. We're probably going off-topic now, but for the record, MacPorts is not FreeBSD Ports. The only thing they really have in common is that one of the initial developers of MacPorts was also previously one of the initial developers of FreeBSD Ports. But they do not work the same, and are not even written in the same programing languages. On OS X we do not compile our own kernels. In MacPorts 2, for many ports, compiling from source is not necessary; for those ports where it's possible, MacPorts will install a pre-build binary downloaded from our automated build server. From what I understand from reading its Wikipedia page, FreeBSD also has binaries. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
