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> FreeBSD has recently included a new binary package manager (pkg) which seems to work well enough, but in all honesty it's still feels a few years behind apt /
by feld 12y ago
> FreeBSD has recently included a new binary package manager (pkg) which seems to work well enough, but in all honesty it's still feels a few years behind apt / pacman / yum.
You don't expect someone to be able to write a full-featured bug-free package manager equivalent to those that have matured over a decade in under a two years do you? What't they've done so far is beyond impressive and at this pace it will be improved beyond the competition within 3 years.
- laumars 12y agoI think the FreeBSD devs have done a cracking job with pkg and I did comment about how it's a new package manager to give context that it's likely to be refined and improved upon with time. All I was just trying to give a balanced opinion but it seems you can't post anything on here these days without someone finding criticism. {sigh}
- lomnakkus 12y ago> You don't expect someone to be able to write a full-featured bug-free package manager equivalent to those that have matured over a decade in under a two years do you? Well, you kind of would, wouldn't you? It seems that this should be a well-understood problem these days, at least unless you're going to do something wildly experimental like Nix. Maybe this says more about the archaic languages and systems we're still, though. (Not that I know much about 'pkg' specifically. What does it do that's different from every other mainstream package manager out there? Why not use APT, for example? Since Debian has a FreeBSD flavour, presumably APT should be able to run without too much tweaking.)