On Sat, March 17, 2007 12:00 pm, Michel Talon wrote: > The reality is that on FreeBSD i find everything i want in the ports, even > more easily that in Ubuntu, while on several other BSD and Linux systems > i don't, by a very large margin. This is not pissing contest, for me the
The result at this point is that pkgsrc is the largest possible amount of packaged third-party software for DragonFly. FreeBSD ports, even though it's a larger collection, had/has a smaller percentage of packages that worked on DragonFly, and that number is seriously dwindling now that FreeBSD 4 is reaching end-of-life status. Don't forget to give Joerg credit, as he has made a huge amount of pkgsrc available for DragonFly very quickly. The combination of that and pkgsrc's general cross-platform reach has given DragonFly package support that you usually only see among systems with large-scale corporate support, with budgets to match: Debian, RedHat, FreeBSD, etc. > What FreeBSD and NetBSD lack is a good system for > management of binary packages. Marc has very well understood that, > and has made every effort so that updates work smoothly. To my > knowledge OpenBSD is the only BSD which has a working update > mechanism, fully integrated. I completely agree with you - I prefer binary packages. If nothing else, pkgmanager is getting close to taking away much of the pain of manual compilation and upgrading: http://www.scode.org/pkgmanager/ .
