Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-08 Thread martinko
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:10:26 -0500, Parv wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote martinko thusly... Norberto Meijome wrote: Hans Nieser wrote: FreeBSD Prospect wrote: ... What I am especially fond of in portage is the USE-flags and the way you can specify then globally and

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-08 Thread martinko
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:59:49 +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote martinko wrote: i already raised the following issue with pkgtools.sonf here on MLs some time ago but i didn't get a response i'd be happy with: i want to make sure that a certain port will be compiled with a certain make

FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread FreeBSD Prospect
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

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread a non y mouse
FreeBSD Prospect wrote: with having a stable OS all the lastest add-on software installed. How does this work out in the FreeBSD world? do you install every single piece of third party software onto your machine? no... of course not 3rd party software is just that--it has no relevance to the

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread FreeBSD Prospect
Am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 12:10 schrieb a non y mouse: FreeBSD Prospect wrote: with having a stable OS all the lastest add-on software installed. How does this work out in the FreeBSD world? do you install every single piece of third party software onto your machine? no... of course

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread lars
FreeBSD Prospect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
lars wrote: FreeBSD Prospect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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,

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Björn König
FreeBSD Prospect schrieb: [...] Now I am wondering, how this is even possible considering the following: - Portage divides all software into three states: hardmasked, masked unstable/testing (~arch) and stable (arch). - In ports there is no such difference, which means the lastest

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Hans Nieser
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

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
On 2/7/06, FreeBSD Prospect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The approach with different qualification of a software state (stable / unstable at least) is a common way to go, as it is handled with the FreeBSD OS (release / stable / current). That's why I wanted to know, how everybody else is comming

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread martinko
Norberto Meijome wrote: 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

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote martinko thusly... Norberto Meijome wrote: Hans Nieser wrote: FreeBSD Prospect wrote: ... 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,

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
martinko wrote: i already raised the following issue with pkgtools.sonf here on MLs some time ago but i didn't get a response i'd be happy with: i want to make sure that a certain port will be compiled with a certain make argument/flag. there are MAKE_ARGS in port tools but these are

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote martinko thusly... Norberto Meijome wrote: Hans Nieser wrote: FreeBSD Prospect wrote: ... 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

Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

2006-02-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:04:23AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: interesting. Is there anywhere one can read about these things, ie, about where and how USE_* are used/ defined, WITH_, etc. ... and how to compile a list of available (USE|WITH)_* and their meaning (grep -r USE|WITH