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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!hdm From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux async vs. FreeBSD sync Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:23:10 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <slrn522r7u.70.hdm@dishmop.noc.demon.net> References: <4uc8cv$3ua@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk> <4vatvc$l1h@venus.os.com> <slrn520397.6h.celestra@celestra.adj.net> Reply-To: hdm@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dishmop.noc.demon.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dishmop.noc.demon.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) On 25 Aug 1996 08:16:06 GMT, Arthur D. Jerijian <celestra@ix.netcom.com> wrote: | I do have a wish list for FreeBSD, however. A packaging system similar | to Red Hat Linux's RPM or Debian's dpkg would be nice. This would make | package installs and uninstalls fairly painless along with an improved | ability to perform in-place upgrades, say from 2.1.5R to 2.2.0R when | ready. As it stands, FreeBSD packages are too much like (ugh....) | Slackware Linux packages. Oh no, you don't. Improve the ports/packages system, by all means, but don't use RPM's. They are a pain. I installed rpm 2.0, and *all* of my packages definitions dissapeared up shit creek. The FreeBSD ports/packages system is on the other hand, the best example that I have seen anywhere. I *wish* that a Linux distribution came with the same thing. In particular, it is far superior to rpm in terms of being able to build multiple packages from source. -Dom -- Not speaking for Demon Internet Ltd. in any way, shape or form.