On Mi, 01 oct 14, 12:20:31, Reco wrote: > > So they say. They also say that NetBSD was the first, and it is the most > portable of BSDs. > But the reality is that BSD people say you 'it runs on this platform' > that usually means they give you so called 'base system' and a > toolchain. And if you have *a lot* of free time, you can build any > software you like as long as it's ported. > Debian (I need to compare BSD with something, do I?) says that 'it runs > on this platform' only once most (90% IIRC) software from the main
Actually it's 98% according to https://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_policy.html > archive is actually built *and* runs on said platform. Built, yes, runs... its always good if a package has tests (either from upstream or as part of DEP 8 http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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