Top posting, as it's the new year. I gotta agree with this. Freebsd's package manager and openbsd's package management are both superior in execution and design. Compared to any of the linux tools, including RPM, apt-get, or Gentoo's, it's not even close.
Don't get me wrong, I love the little linuxes, but It's not even close. BSD's just do the right thing and work. RPM? You gotta be freaking kidding me. apt-get? Much improved of late, but still broken by design. Gentoo - sigh. Gentoo will work on single machines, with a dedicated religious fanatic attending to it, but try to scale it and you get all sorts of sillyness. (recently witnessed this first hand, it was not pretty). hate hate hate. Disclaimer: I now (and recently) work in the largest BSD shop in the world. See if you can guess where that is. >> I, for one, will be glad when all of that generation are dead. >> > > the ability to (for instance) tar up everything in /usr/local and know > for a certainty you have backed up everything package-wise that was > not part of the base OS install, allowing you to do a clean reinstall, > is useful. As far as the relative utility of the package mgmt systems, > I'd put the current OpenBSD pkg_* tools (and the ports tree) up > against anything else out there, including apt. If you haven't looked > at the non-trivial improvements made in the past few years following > the complete rewrite of pkg_*, you are proceeding on false > assumptions. >
