Pacman?

Pieter Dumon pieter.dumon at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 08:31:13 PDT 2006


On 8/16/06, Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
TBH, I don't see why have ports for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo and
whatever, why not make a system that has many packages for many OS's.
Well, that is exactly the goal of both pkgsrc and portage, isn't it ?
(Both are meant to be portable over /runnable on any OS AND
architecture).
Gentoo Portage has a very BSD-ish philosophy (except for being GPL),
and it has some 1000s of packages more than pkgsrc (on Linux that is)
Nevertheless, being a BSD, pkgsrc is the choice to make (for licensing
reasons and others) and focussing effort on that is a good thing.




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