Re: Linux and FreeBSD Compatibility
From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 10/16/03
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Date: 16 Oct 2003 19:44:17 GMT
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> transmitted:
> - Ports. To install a barrel of stuff, you head to
> /usr/ports/[subsystem]/[package], type "make install", and it
> downloads source code and compiles whatever you asked for from
> scratch.
>
> Eliminates a lot of the challenges of "did I download the right
> library package for Gnome?"
Following up on this...
I would think that had Slackware adopted Ports as its "packaging
mechanism," it could have avoided the 'ghettoization' where the public
view seems to be that they are antisocial angry "3l33t sysadmins" who
want everyone to compile and install everything by hand.
By using Ports, just about everything would, indeed, be compiled
directly from source, but without the mandate that users have to
hand-hold the whole process, and without the problem that each system
has a differently-installed version of similar source code.
Slackware + Ports could have kept Slackware from disappearing largely
into "curiosity" status, and would have allowed it to evolve naturally
into what Gentoo is _trying_ to become...
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