David Chisnall writes:
> It's quite difficult to do meaningful comparisons. For example, we
> have a port for gcc 4.7, but Debian has, last time I counted, over ten
> distinct packages for each GCC release. There are other places where
> we have split things up into multiple ports, but other ope
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
> You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our side
> and SRPMs / DSCs on the Linux side.
I asked a coworker who's a Debian developer; he says Debian has ~30k
packages from ~20k distinct sources, which is in the same ballpark as
the ports tree (~24k
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
> > You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our side
> > and SRPMs / DSCs on the Linux side.
>
> I asked a coworker who's a Debian developer; he says Debian has ~30k
> packages from ~20
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk writes:
> Install many packages by pkg_add .
> When a desktop ( KDE . FluxBox , Gnome ) is started :
> Mouse , key board is NOT working , they are solid rock .
> To mount removable media : I could not find a way to it .
That is not my experience. Simply installing x11/gnome
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk writes:
> > Install many packages by pkg_add .
> > When a desktop ( KDE . FluxBox , Gnome ) is started :
> > Mouse , key board is NOT working , they are solid rock .
> > To mount removable media : I could not fin
On 3/18/2013 7:40 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk writes:
Install many packages by pkg_add .
When a desktop ( KDE . FluxBox , Gnome ) is started :
Mouse , key board is NOT working , they are solid rock .
To m
Chris Benesch writes:
> Lets take gcc for instance. To install gcc on BSD, you need the gcc
> port and a few support packages, such as readline, gettext, intl,
> etc... but thats it. On Linux you need gcc, gcc-devel, gcc-headers,
> kernel-headers, gcc-libs, a whole lot more complex. The differe
On 3/18/2013 8:55 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Chris Benesch writes:
Lets take gcc for instance. To install gcc on BSD, you need the gcc
port and a few support packages, such as readline, gettext, intl,
etc... but thats it. On Linux you need gcc, gcc-devel, gcc-headers,
kernel-headers, gcc
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:33:18 +0100
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
> > You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our
> > side and SRPMs / DSCs on the Linux side.
>
> I asked a coworker who's a Debian developer; he says Debian has ~30k
> packages from
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Alexander Leidinger <
alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:33:18 +0100
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
> > > You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our
> > > side and SRPMs / DSCs on the L
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Alexander Leidinger <
alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:33:18 +0100
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes:
> > > You can get a meaningful comparison by counting distfiles on our
> > > side and SRPMs / DSCs on the L
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