Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-28 Thread Aaron Toponce
he architectures it covers is massively impressive, it runs lean and it's snappy as hell. However, as beautiful as it is, it's still light years (any BSD really) behind any decent, capable GNU/Linux-based operating system, including Debian. However, because the thread is about a "p

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-27 Thread Kyle Dassoff
It isn't Debian, but Arch is a nice distro as long as you don't mind configuring more of the system on your own. I've been using Arch for a while (as well as Debian). Gentoo is also a good choice if you want tons of control over how packages are compiled (look up USE flags on Gentoo's documentat

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-27 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 5/26/10, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Madhurya Kakati put forth on 5/26/2010 10:15 PM: >> Is there a bsd ports like system in debian? > > I believe you're looking for the Gentoo Portage system: > > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml > > AFAIK, there is no Debian equivalent, nor any other Linux d

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-26 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Madhurya Kakati put forth on 5/26/2010 10:15 PM: > > Is there a bsd ports like system in debian? > > I believe you're looking for the Gentoo Portage system: > > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml > > AFAIK, there is no Debian equivalent

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Madhurya Kakati put forth on 5/26/2010 10:15 PM: > Is there a bsd ports like system in debian? I believe you're looking for the Gentoo Portage system: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml AFAIK, there is no Debian equivalent, nor any other Linux distro, that manages and builds packages from s

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 22:15:40 Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Is there a bsd ports like system in debian? Instead of provided a big source tree where you have to compile a large number of programs yourself, Debian provides more than 30k binary packages for a half-dozen different architectures. So.

Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-26 Thread Madhurya Kakati
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