BSD Version Of Gentoo's Portage

eugene ts wong writes "Here is some good news for BSD users. Gentoo Weekly Newsletter has an article that says that there is a BSD version of portage. It's still in a developmental stage, but it's definitely making progress."

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why use a calculator when you can use an abacus?

Why?

also coming soon...

[bcrowell]

• vi keybindings for emacs
• a Windows skin for MacOS X

Re:Splitting the user base!

[harmgsn]

Not to forget about having to chase down the dependancies, hoping they're the right version, then chasing down the dependancies' depandancies, etc., etc., etc. That's one of the major reasons I chose to stay away from the RPM-based systems and went with FreeBSD. The ports tree gets the dependancies for you (if you are in a lazy enough mood to go that route) or the pkg_add gets them as well. It's a lot less of a headache to worry about "oops, I forgot this dependancy!". I personally think that the RPM users who are die hard "OMFGZORZ MY RPMS PWNZORZ UR SYSTEM" just think that they are cool because they know how to use a search engine and find the rpm they need and spend 12 hours hunting down everything needed to get something installed whereas a FreeBSD user would get the software installed and move on to things that are more important (ie: life away from hunting rpms). Just my 2 cents.