Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

Baho Utot baho-utot at columbus.rr.com
Sat Dec 2 13:07:21 UTC 2017



On 12/02/17 07:04, Vlad K. wrote:
> On 2017-12-02 12:53, Carmel NY wrote:
>>
>> I am hoping that  someone can get "synth" back up and working 
>> correctly. If not
>> it might be time for me to look at another OS for my network.
> 
> 
> This has been mentioned several times as a "solution", but I really 
> don't understand it. What other OS would be comparatively equal in this 
> functionality? Other than Gentoo, 

Arch linux, makes FreeBSD look like the childs play it is


you'd have hard time compiling
> individual packages, in a binary-precompiled-packages-based OS. Sure 
> there are source DEBs or RPMs, but keeping track of custom built ones is 
> not as easy as flipping a few options and running `poudriere bulk` every 
> now and then.
> 
> Which then means, you can already use binary-precompiled packages here 
> in FreeBSD. Even more so now with FLAVORS, as the packages will be built 
> with some common option variations which would match exactly what's 
> done, say in Debian based distros.
> 
> Honest question, I really am interested.
> 
> 


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