4 Aug
2005
4 Aug
'05
6:16 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 00:58 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Sorry, but I don't think a distribution that makes you build your own system by following rambling documentation interspersed with example commands instead of just putting the commands in an executable script quite understands how unix users like to do things...
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"Ports" distros are actually a throwback to many UNIX concepts. Gentoo's Emerge is nothing new, and FreeBSD's ports work similar.
I think "ports" distros have much to offer for many things. And Emerge _is_ scripts.
The problem is that people "oversell" what "ports" based distros do. "Packages" distros are very capable in many areas.
Again, I break them down in my blog.
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