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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