Ports & Pkg Mgr

Wade neroz at ii.net
Sat Sep 27 22:50:45 PDT 2003


James Frazer wrote:
Maybe the kernel mailing list isn't the best place for this post but it 
seems to be the most relevant list I could find.

I was wondering if there was any consideration for making use of the 
darwin-ports infrastructure as a possible future option?

I've been following the darwin-ports efforts off and on for the last 
year or so and although not as mature as the current FreeBSD Ports 
system it looks as though it will be more future-proof.

Since it works independent of pkg-management it is foreseeable that it 
could work in hand with dfbsd's goals.

What are your feelings on the matter?

-James

Why are ports going to be used rather than an actual package management 
system?






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