On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Why bother porting non-base packages, since FreeBSD has linux > emulation mode?
The Linux emulation is not perfect (at least not the one in 3.2, which I tried a while ago). > 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. Yeah, I agree. If those things existed, I would probably be running FreeBSD right now.