On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:39:20AM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Semantical differences, at best, lets be honest. They really do not > affect the bigger picture all that much and if they do, I would like to > hear about them.
Sure, like I said -- the small things I started to really enjoy :-) > Secondly, when you say the "option framework" is better built then ports, > please substantiate and elaborate on your claim. I can control all options from /etc/mk.conf, not the separation used in FreeBSD by default. There's a system wide default system and per-package changes to that. It's not perfect, e.g. current discussion is how to allow packages with different options to coexist on the FTP server. > If pkgsrc was to be used for solving the BUILD domain of the problem, it > wouldn't be so bad at all, but I think it is NO GOOD at solving the issues > with binary packages. I never said it is supposed to do that either :-) I fully agree with you that tools for that are needed. apt-get solves some problems, but has a lot of nasty issues too. I've not investigated how much work it is to teach apt-get handling of BSD-style packages, but it should be possible. Joerg
