Re: XMMS

[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2004/12/21]

From: Peter Pentchev
Subject: Re: XMMS
Date: 16:13 on 21 Dec 2004
--qcHopEYAB45HaUaB
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:49:11AM -0500, Chris Winters wrote:
> > Yeah.  Gentoo's portage tried to make a better FreeBSD ports
> > collection, missing the whole point of the latter entirely.
>=20
> I'm unfamiliar with FreeBSD ports. How are they so different from Gentoo's
> portage?

Well, the FreeBSD ports collection basically gives you the means to
rebuild the programs you want to *if* you want to, and then it gives the
FreeBSD release engineers the means to fill the installation CD's with
lots of - and here's a novel idea, at least to some aforementioned Linux
distro maintainers, it would seem - *binary packages* built from those
self-same ports :)

It's a bit more than that, of course, but that's the basic idea - the
CD's have binary packages, the FTP sites have binary packages (which are
also updated between releases, of course), but if you want to, you can
sync the ports tree daily and build and rebuild from source to your
heart's desire.

G'luck,
Peter

--=20
Peter Pentchev	roam@xxxxxxx.xxx    roam@xxxxx.xx    roam@xxxxxxx.xxx
PGP key:	http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc
Key fingerprint	FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E  DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553
This sentence no verb.

--qcHopEYAB45HaUaB
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFByEut7Ri2jRYZRVMRAvfwAJ98q8fTW1FgvdK5YiDKNIOqnpJUYACcCADI
xCkKepy82/q1UtKBJ6Jow9c=
=0TWr
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--qcHopEYAB45HaUaB--
There's stuff above here

Generated at 02:00 on 04 Feb 2005 by mariachi 0.52