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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux async vs. FreeBSD sync Date: 25 Aug 1996 13:37:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4vpktv$fth@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4uc8cv$3ua@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk> <4vatvc$l1h@venus.os.com> <slrn520397.6h.celestra@celestra.adj.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E celestra@ix.netcom.com (Arthur D. Jerijian) wrote: > I do have a wish list for FreeBSD, however. A packaging system similar > to Red Hat Linux's RPM or Debian's dpkg would be nice. This would make > package installs and uninstalls fairly painless along with an improved > ability to perform in-place upgrades, say from 2.1.5R to 2.2.0R when > ready. As it stands, FreeBSD packages are too much like (ugh....) > Slackware Linux packages. Things of this kind are perhaps best discussed on the mailing list freebsd-ports@freebsd.org. Even if you are not subscribed, write there. Too many contributors won't notice your opinion here in Usenet. (Remember, *BSD development and support _mainly_ happens on mailing lists.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)