[HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

Michelle Sullivan michelle at sorbs.net
Wed Sep 3 14:08:49 UTC 2014


Rainer Duffner wrote:
>
> Maybe Solaris or RedHat would be better platforms for those negatively
> affected by this - they have very stable APIs that are supported for a
> very long time. But porting non-mainstream 3rd-party software to these
> OSs might be challenging, too, after a couple of years. 3rd-party
> software moves on, too.
>
>
>
>   

Well all my applications are written in perl or ansi c (using posix
calls) so they compile and run on most linux, solaris and freebsd
versions without much changes (the usual issue is the libraries needed
for resolver routines)

Michelle

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