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As a newcomer, FreeBSD's new pkg tool is what sold me to the platform. I am too new school to to deal with Ports. I don't get much of a rush out of compiling my
by autoreleasepool 10y ago
As a newcomer, FreeBSD's new pkg tool is what sold me to the platform. I am too new school to to deal with Ports. I don't get much of a rush out of compiling my own binaries.
- clarry 10y agoDoes it offer something beyond OpenBSD's pkg tools?
- Sanddancer 10y agoA database backend which makes searching through packages, and occasionally being naughty and altering manifests, easi. It's fast as hell, like faster than apt, it lets you lock packages to a specific version, etc, so you can do things like have 2 or 3 packages built with special flags and still use the package management tools. It's fantastically clean too and well documented, as BSD software tends to be.