Roman Bekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Patrick wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> I like the idea, but not the use of /usr/ports. How about /opt/ports?
> >
> > But to what end ? and with what back end compilers ?
> Regarding backend compilers, please just recall how /usr/ports work on
> *BSD. There are makefiles, which do just what is specified by the
> software authors and the port maintainer (which might patch the makefile
> to make it sutable for clean compile on OpenSolaris or those *BSD systems).
Are you sure that this is true?
Although the *BSD mainteiners are doing their job much better than
the maintainers of Linux based distributions (e.g. Debian), they still
apply patches that have negative impact on the overall quality of the code.
Jörg
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