It may be worth noting at this point that portage runs (quite well, from what I hear / have seen) on FreeBSD.
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:05:01 -0800, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, this was exactly the thought that started to roll around in my head > after the last > couple replies... Ports sounds very similar to Portage but does it have all > the nice > options/features of emerge? > > Is anyone currently using FreeBSD and can you tell me what the status of this > is? How does > one see what other packages will be installed when you "make install" of some > app? And is > there yet any tool yet to check and rebuild dependent libraries? > Revdep-rebuild has saved > my ass a couple times. > > Keep it coming... I'm loving this. > > b > > > Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > > > > A short period of installing servers with FreeBSD, led me to use Gentoo. > > I still have one BSD server and I'm waiting for an opportunity to > > replace it also. the reason is maintenance. in gentoo, when you run > > emerge -uav ... you see a list of what it will install and with what > > options. in ports, it's very difficult to see what will be installed, > > and almost impossible to see what are the options it will be installed > > with (unless you're going to read the makefiles of all the ports you > > install and their dependencies - in 5.x they are starting to deal with > > it but the last time I looked it's far from being complete). also, there > > is no revdep-rebuild so you have to test every application that depends > > on a library you just installed (or run portupgrade -r). all of these > > make it much harder to maintain. > > > > Bye >
