HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Andrew Berg wrote:

> On 2014.07.26 00:06, Dylan Leigh wrote:
>> The big difference between them from a user POV is that pkg
>> still requires a bit of knowledge of ports and how it works
>> (what options are, categories etc.) whereas using apt requires
>> no knowledge of the Ubuntu package infrastructure or how .deb
>> files are built.
> Well, to be fair, do .deb packages really have options? It's been a while since
> I've used them, but IIRC, if you were to just not tell the user what the
> options are, it would be the same as a .deb package.

The major linux distributions which use .deb-format packages do not have 
anything which might be said to resemble the options available from the 
FreeBSD ports framework.  That said, .deb is basically just a file format, 
and an individual could tweak the makefile used to build such packages to 
include options-like functionality, on a per-package basis.

-Ben