FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)

a non y mouse anonymous at forea.ch
Tue Feb 7 03:11:47 PST 2006


FreeBSD Prospect wrote:
> with having a stable OS & all the lastest add-on software installed. How
> does this work out in the FreeBSD world?

do you install every single piece of third party software onto your
machine? no... of course not

3rd party software is just that--it has no relevance to the quality of
the operating system on which it runs, so i fail to see how it could be
taken into consideration when evaluating said operating system.

you are given free will to install or not install any software you wish,
and in any manner. if you want to compare the level of stability and
security of an operating system vs. another, fine. but leave it at that.

whether the ports tree existed or not, you would install certain pieces
of software if you needed them. this, imo, makes any concept of
"security" or "stability" in the ports tree completely immaterial

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