On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:54:32 +0200, Erik P. Skaalerud wrote: > As Joerg said earlier, why not rather look at _why_ people love to use > apt instead of pkg_*? > > Can't we just try to make our own packaging system (like apt wich is > easy to use) wich could perhaps use packages as primary medium, but yet > provide a posibillity to compile software like we do with ports/pkgsrc?
I guess, it's either because people keep talk with no action ;-) or DragonFly isn't ready unless it is. Onebase Linux[1] has its own package system that support both source and binary, but I never knew how good it is compare to the others. [1] http://www.ibiblio.org/onebase/onebaselinux.com/Support/olm-guide.php Cheers, Mezz > It's just a matter of specifying in a repo that XYZ package cannot be > distrubuted binary, so it will just auto-default to compile it. And if > "power users" wants to compile their own software, they can do that if > they want to by turning on a compile-default flag instead of a standard > binary-default flag (with being able to use flags like we already do in > ports/pkgsrc) > > I dont know about you other guys, but a system like this would be a > dream for me. > > - Erik
