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What would you consider the advantage of FreeBSD ports/packages? Why would that be taken away by pkg? pkg provides a way to manage (binary) packages. There are
by darklajid 10y ago
What would you consider the advantage of FreeBSD ports/packages? Why would that be taken away by pkg?
pkg provides a way to manage (binary) packages. There are other tools (like poudriere, last time I dabbled in the FreeBSD world) to manage/create binary packages.
You could run FreeBSD on your tiny VPS, but build packages with all the custom ports options you could want in a jail on your local machine.
- nixos 10y agoThe advantage of ports is that they are compiled for your machine. The minute you get precompiled packages, you might as well be on Debian
- danieldk 10y agoWell, the nice thing is that you can mix and match. Don't care about the configuration of a package, use pkg. Want to use a set op custom compilation options? Use ports with 'make config'.