On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Daniel Horecki wrote: > Lucas Holt <l...@foolishgames.com> writes: > > > There is also mirports from MirBSD that is supported on MirBSD, > > MidnightBSD, and Mac OS X. They also got a pkgsrc port going recently. The > > problem is that projects have specific needs that other systems don't have. > > FreeBSD ports are by far the largest and very fast to build. Pkgsrc comes > > out quarterly so it takes a long time to get patches in or updates as > > Dragonfly goes through. With MidnightBSD, we wanted all ports to go through > > fake install so our packages would work all the time and we could write > > package tools customized for the ports tree. > > > > Every BSD has different needs and different users. > > > > You can use pkgsrc-current, which is updated all the time. > It also supports installation to fake DESTDIR, from where binary packages > are made and then installed. It is useful, if you are building as > unprivileged user. > And pkgsrc already supports FreeBSD. > What you are pointing here: fake DESTDIR, binary packages and building as unpriviledged, are fairly easy to add to FreeBSD, I'm working on all this. it is not complicated, but it takes a lot of time, no need to go elsewhere to get those features, the ports tree is almost able to handle it.
regards, Bapt
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