Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Thursday October 08 2015 07:16:51 Alejandro Imass wrote: > Perhaps it's a good time to evaluate a switch to PCBSD and ditch the Linux > ;-) I think you were not the only one suggesting this. I've been trying to check out PC-BSD in a VM for a while (Virtual Box), but I keep getting a pop-up

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Thursday October 08 2015 07:16:51 Alejandro Imass wrote: > Perhaps it's a good time to evaluate a switch to PCBSD and ditch the Linux > ;-) Why? I've already checked the temp of those waters. I know MacPorts comes from BSD originally, but I cannot say I felt right at home at once on PC-BSD

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:59 PM, René J.V. wrote: > Morning! > > OK now, don't get me wrong, this is not an announcement that I'll be > forking off MacPorts to begin a fully supported Linux variant! :) > > However, if anyone on here is like me (a developer's not to say

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:59 PM, René J.V. wrote: > Morning! > > OK now, don't get me wrong, this is not an announcement that I'll be > forking off MacPorts to begin a fully supported Linux variant! :) > Also, why no use Gentoo or other existing ports-based Linux variants ?

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Sven Kolja Heinemann wrote: > MacPorts exists to make OS X a complete BSD distribution > That seems to be a wonderful aim… Thank you! -- Eneko Gotzon Ares enekogot...@gmail.com ___ macports-users

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 7:33 AM, René J.V. wrote: > On Thursday October 08 2015 07:16:51 Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > Perhaps it's a good time to evaluate a switch to PCBSD and ditch the > Linux > > ;-) > > Why? > > I've already checked the temp of those waters. I know

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Thursday October 08 2015 09:22:19 Alejandro Imass wrote: > Also, why no use Gentoo or other existing ports-based Linux variants ? I don't need to have a front-row seat for everything. In fact, I much prefer a stable OS with LTS, one that I can work done on/with, rather than one on which I

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

- On 8 Oct, 2015, at 16:57, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: > For me, MacPorts is just an additional distribution system (and more of a > build > system) for certain things that I would otherwise build "by hand". See, that's where you're wrong. MacPorts actively tries to NOT

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

Gentoo currently has 1240 orphaned packages and there only exists a very small group of active proxy maintainers. So I would not use Gentoo as any alternative...which pains me to say because I used to love Gentoo. On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > >

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

Cal You are misinterpreting what Rene is saying. He is not trying to garner support for a Linux based Ports system, he is just sharing - after all he did state 'pet project' in the title and also states very clearly that "... this is not an announcement that I'll be forking off MacPorts to

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Thursday October 08 2015 17:44:37 Clemens Lang wrote: > See, that's where you're wrong. MacPorts actively tries to NOT be a build > system, > but a package manager. That's why we focus on getting things done the right > way > and ensuring the tuple (os, port, variants) always behaves the

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Alejandro Imass wrote: > Perhaps it's a good time to evaluate a switch to PCBSD and ditch the > Linux ;-) Anything that ditches Linux is fine by me :-) I'm a bit of a BSD snob, after all... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

On Wednesday October 07 2015 20:36:24 Sven Kolja Heinemann wrote: > ... I don't see why anyone would install something like this on a Linux > distribution ... That's fine, but I think you haven't read my full message, it should explain why I'm using MP to install certain things. MP is not

pet project : LnxPorts

Morning! OK now, don't get me wrong, this is not an announcement that I'll be forking off MacPorts to begin a fully supported Linux variant! :) However, if anyone on here is like me (a developer's not to say hacker's mindset, and swinging back and forth between the OS X and Linux household

Re: pet project : LnxPorts

If your Linux Distribution does not provide latest packages, you can either install them from 3rd party repositories or try another distribution like Arch Linux or Gentoo, or compile them from upstream using the userland of your distribution. MacPorts exists to make OS X a complete BSD