On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Andrew Berg wrote:
On 2014.07.26 00:06, Dylan Leigh wrote:
The big difference between them from a user POV is that pkg
still requires a bit of knowledge of ports and how it works
(what options are, categories etc.) whereas using apt requires
no knowledge of the Ubuntu package infrastructure or how .deb
files are built.
Well, to be fair, do .deb packages really have options? It's been a while since
I've used them, but IIRC, if you were to just not tell the user what the
options are, it would be the same as a .deb package.
The major linux distributions which use .deb-format packages do not have
anything which might be said to resemble the options available from the
FreeBSD ports framework. That said, .deb is basically just a file format,
and an individual could tweak the makefile used to build such packages to
include options-like functionality, on a per-package basis.
-Ben
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