[Gllug] BSD

[Henrik Morsing]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Jason Clifford wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Henrik Morsing wrote:
>
> > To me the FreeBSD package system seems like the ones Debian and Gentoo
> > uses. I've never understood this statement.
>
> Isn't Gentoo's packaging system based upon the FreeBSD ports system?

Yes.

> It's a lot time since I ran FreeBSD - does the packaging automatically
> sort out dependancies in the manner Debian does? Are the maintainers as
> pedantic about things being right as the Debian folk *usually* are?

I wouldn't know. I've never had problems with it not installing the
correct dependencies. To me it looks like it works like the Debian system.
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