Re: [tlug] Into the ring: distro wars reducks

[Lewske Wada <ryu@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> everything outside the GUI is wide
> open.  And MacPorts sucks pretty much as bad as Gentoo -- you can
> waste a lot of time there.  Speaking of which ...
>
>  > With Linux its always just a matter of time so you do.
>   

BSD ports are compiled locally, basically.
If you want to use things like "package" that's called in FreeBSD
in Darwin, you should go use fink instead where you will have
binary installations.

Debian provides decent package management system for both
binaries and sources as well.

Cheers,
Ryu