Port dependencies

[Romain Garbage]

2011/4/3 Chris Telting <christopher-ml at telting.org>:
>
>>        seriously, this is why i want that debian+freebsd that was
>>        discussed recently.  the kernel is ours and number one in the
>>        world.  and the ports stuff is basically packages that more/less
>>        just-work.  you can get the src =with= the pkg.
>>
>
> How does debian get around all the "make config" options that we deal with?
>  Such as does such and such package pull in samba...  Or does debian just
> compile with every option more or less enabled?

"Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the
GNU C library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular
Debian package set." from http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

So it seems they basically use their own packages and not the ports.

Romain