[rescue] Re:EMACS

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I wonder if there was be room for a linux distribution that used the
FreeBSD ports system to manage packages...

Anyway, FreeBSD isn't on the list of things I plan to try soon.  It is to
Intel only, and I don't really need another Intel OS, especially not one
that is going to have worse hardware support than linux.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, P.A.Osborne wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:06:54AM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Well, first, so far I haven't met a package management system that I could
> > get along with.
> 
> 
> The best I have found is the FreeBSD ports system,   pull down the ports
> skeletons,  go to the directory  of the package you want and go do a 
> make install.   It just works - I am sure its black magic,  but it goes
> get libraries and all the dependancies etc and installs them as well.
> 
> It just works - marvellous.
> 
> Paul
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