> Why bother porting non-base packages, since FreeBSD has linux > emulation mode?
What? Why emulate when you can compile natively? > It seems to me that dpkg and apt are not compatible with BSD > ports. What debian-bsd needs is a good packaging system, that > handles dependencies properly, dist-upgrade properly, etc. How is this Debian? Why not just enhance pkg_add? > Isn't this the whole reason for debian-bsd - a proper packaging > system? Seems like all you need is the ports tree and a couple of shell scripts to automate upgrades. > And what a waste a bandwidth with all sorts of people running > cvsup from their cron. Give me binary packages and apt upgrade. So run dpkg and apt in emulation.
