On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Chris wrote:
While coming from FreeBSD makes me a bit biased. I think it's a good thing to think/talk about. But be warned; FreeBSD pkg(8) comes with it's own set of complications. Not something OI would want to inherit. fe; if you build your packages/applications from ports (source). You can NOT use package AT ALL. Conversely; if you install your applications from pkg(8). You can NOT build additional applications from ports/source. They are mutually incompatible. Something to think about. :-)
Is anyone building from source these days? I thought of trying that for a FreeBSD system last week and it shocked me how much time and space was needed to build Xorg just to start things off. I gave up the idea when the system crashed due to lack of space - a 15GB virtual partition was full, and the 'make' operation had already taken 4 hrs or so. Probably off topic, but showed me all is not well in the BSD world. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
