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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.109.159.3!news.gtn.com!klemm.gtn.com!not-for-mail From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: package management and freebsd Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:41:58 GMT Organization: private site ``powered by FreeBSD'', see http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5jvs46$hh2$1@klemm.gtn.com> References: <3361aaa2.1929224@news.hol.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: klemm.gtn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39832 In article <3361aaa2.1929224@news.hol.fr>, alain.bosch@ANTI_SPAM.hol.fr (Alain Bosch) writes: > Hi everybody, > > I'd like to know if there's something like package management > under freebsd. > > Like under linux with debian dpkg.* or red hat's rpm. FreeBSD is divided only into a few packages (like sources, binaries, doc, X11R6), since FreeBSD is a "complete" operating system in the "traditional" way. The 850 ports of application programs from the FreeBSD ports collection are completely under package control. > Is the whole OS packaged so i'm able to remove automatically > what i don't need anymore? I think you won't miss this, since FreeBSD is a real Unix operating system. Not as patchworked, overloaded and bloated as Linux in most distributions is. -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<