> For FreeBSD, I have to convert that package name to a port name, Which can be trivially automated.
> and then I > have to cd into the stupid port directory and then I have to run "make > package". Which can be trivially automated. > "make package" is not significantly better than "make install" > for the purposes of automation, which is to say, introspection and > interaction with the computer. If you want to do multiple installs (which is when that trivial automation mentioned above becomes worth arsing around with) the result is that you have a package that you can pkg_add on the rest of your boxes. > Again, I'm sure this is great for people who like having their own > synchronous conversations with computers. I don't find that FreeBSD forces me to have conversations with my computer. Linux kernel configuration, however... > Why go to all that effort to make things "easy" if it's not easy to hand off > to a computer? It's stupid. Because it's easy to hand off to a computer?
