On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:17:41PM +0000, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > Are OpenBSD's packages extremely outdated? What would you say to this > guy? > > "At least with Linux I don't have to wait 6 hours for all my software > to finish compiling. Think about all the trees that are unnecessarily > cut down because of all that compiling. [...snip...] OpenBSD only has > a small number of precompiled packages, and usually extremely > outdated. If you want to get anything useful you have to compile > ports." > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7196494 > > Thanks!
I would tell him: pkg_add gnome => on -current (soon to be 5.5) you end up with the same GNOME version (and assorted dependencies) as with the latest Fedora. We have the latest version of gnome, cups, gnutls, libgcrypt, ..................... We have KMS with state of the art acceleration on Intel and ATI. And I don't understand why this guy spends hours compiling shits. This is not gentoo but OpenBSD, we use binary packages. We have around 7750 packages on amd64, and unlike Linux distros we do not split packages between -devel, -doc and stuffs -- so for a fair comparison you should dounble of even triple this number. If he thinks we are outdated, point him to: http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/ It is the usual FUD, People have *no* idea what OpenBSD is nor how it works nor what is ships. Their mind is stuck in the 90's when they read the only thing they ever read about BSD OSes. People are parrots, they don't make up their own mind because it actually demands some effort; so they just repeat whatever shit sounded "clever" in someone else's mouth. Oh and by the way, most big Linux shops I know and/or worked for also used to compiled a big sets of packages for obvious (and sometime not-so-obvious) reasons. -- Antoine
