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.

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