Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Craig Edwards wrote:

Come to that, gentoo's emerge system is pretty good, having learnt a lot from FreeBSD's ports system, and then gone a few steps further.

Andrew


I agree, however, i do not like the gentoo dependency upon python for its package management system. It has not broken on me yet, however i can imagine if it does it would be a nightmare to fix, as python is not a trivial program. If FreeBSD ever were to attempt an emerge-like system, it would be convenient imho (although probably less maintainable?) to have it done in something smaller and easier to manage (and easier repair when broken?) such as perl or shellscript.

I'm a fan of perl myself, but I don't really see that dependency on python is more of an issue than dependency on perl would be, or more of an issue than the current dependency of the portupgrade tools on ruby.

Andrew




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