Re: Progres?

1999-10-27 Thread Christian Kurz
On 99-10-26 Clint Adams wrote: > > We are mostly trying to create a better package system for FreeBSD in > > combination with the other good aspects of Debian. If I seem to recall > > the discussion at the beginn correctly. > What are "the other good aspects"? Good preconfiguration. Documentatio

Re: Progres?

1999-10-27 Thread Per Lundberg
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Why bother porting non-base packages, since FreeBSD has linux > emulation mode? The Linux emulation is not perfect (at least not the one in 3.2, which I tried a while ago). > It seems to me that dpkg and apt are not compatible with BSD > ports. What

Re: Progres?

1999-10-27 Thread Gary D. Kline
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:24:47PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > Why bother porting non-base packages, since FreeBSD has linux > > emulation mode? > > What? Why emulate when you can compile natively? > > > It seems to me that dpkg and apt are not compatible with BSD > > ports. What debian-bsd n

Re: Progres?

1999-10-27 Thread Clint Adams
> Why bother porting non-base packages, since FreeBSD has linux > emulation mode? What? Why emulate when you can compile natively? > It seems to me that dpkg and apt are not compatible with BSD > ports. What debian-bsd needs is a good packaging system, that > handles dependencies properly, dist