On 27/12/2012 14:06, Stuart Henderson wrote:
This isn't like a Linux distribution where the whole system is installed from a collection of different pieces of packaged software. The base operating system is a consistent whole; pkg_info lists only packages of third-party software which are not part of the base OS (software from packages is located primarily under /usr/local, with some files ending up in other places like /var - software from the base OS installs into /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin etc).
I understand, that in this case, tar is really bsdtar (not gnutar, or star) and that is part of the core while linux distros don't have a "core" tar and use the external gnu version.
I see as well that binary packages use versioning, because are external, like nano or lftp.
