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I might play around with this actually, but I think the biggest drawback when I last tried it was I became too impatient to wait for ports to compile the packag

by caycep 13y ago

I might play around with this actually, but I think the biggest drawback when I last tried it was I became too impatient to wait for ports to compile the packages. Does it provide some way of doing pre-compiled binaries i.e. like apt?

profquail 13y ago
Yes -- FreeBSD 10 has a new package manager which you can use to install pre-compiled binaries (a la `apt`). If you want to read more about it: https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgPrimer https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgPrimer http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html https://github.com/freebsd/pkg https://github.com/freebsd/pkg
- cperciva 13y ago
  To elaborate a bit -- FreeBSD has had packages for a long time, but this new packaging system is more, err, "functional".