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> That's why every BSD has a "ports" tree... To answer this question. This is about base compatibility so ports don’t apply. The ports collection has to be ins
by yepthatsreality 5y ago
> That's why every BSD has a "ports" tree...
To answer this question. This is about base compatibility so ports don’t apply. The ports collection has to be installed separately, hence incompatibility.
- md8z 5y agoI don't understand what you mean base compatibility, a port doesn't happen until some interested party does it. It doesn't actually matter if it's in the ports tree or not, that's just a convenient place for BSD people to put things. Truly "portable" software is a myth, either you are using some abstraction layer that somebody else built, or you put in the work to do a port.
- yepthatsreality 5y agoBase compatibility about what’s included in the system when you install it. Since Unix systems have a Unix philosophy they will not use systemd. Ports aren’t included in the base system, there for systemd would not be compatible with a base system that doesn’t include it.
- md8z 5y agoI don't understand what this has to do with the "unix philosophy" or what that is supposed to mean, and the base systems between Devuan and BSD are not compatible anyway. I mentioned that earlier, BSD doesn't use sysvinit...
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- md8z 5y agoThat's a pretty disappointing response, I was hoping to be able to learn something about this today.