On Wed, 24 May 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
On 23/05/06, Roger Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All that said FreeBSD's ports are still the reference
implementation, head-and-shoulders better than up2date, yum, rpm,
apt-get, or anything else out there.
I guess you haven't looked at OpenBSD's branch of FreeBSD's
pkg_add(1), where they've added some cool support for automatic port
updating, which seems to work quite well:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-espie/
Come to that, gentoo's emerge system is pretty good, having learnt a lot
from FreeBSD's ports system, and then gone a few steps further.
Andrew
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