Portage versus Ports

dvNuLL · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 49 Location: San Francisco

Okay so I have been a Gentoo user since Oct last year. I love Gentoo. To anyone who asks what distro they should use I will suggest Gentoo and only Gentoo.

Lately some friends of mine have been talking about FreeBSD so much that I decided to try it out. So I download the latest RELEASE iso and decide to setup a mail server on FReeBSD.

In Gentoo except for maybe 1 or 2 apps every other app in portage compiles, installs and works. In FreeBSD half the apps in ports fails dusring compile. Cant find a library, or just make errors (but I can download and compile the SAME app just fine )

I am not trying to make this a FreeBSD sucks thread. I just have to say to all the Gentoo developers and maintainers .. you guy ROCK!! and Keep up the AWESOME work on this AWESOME distro

dvNuLL
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TheWart · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 3:41 am Post subject:

the thing i find so attractive about portage is that it detects the dependencies and tells you what is going on, andis very easy to use and keep your sytem up-to date.
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

mezz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 111

It's because you need to update the port tree by CVS or download and unpack by manual. FreeBSD's ports hasn't fail on me so far for a year..

What's so good about FreeBSD's ports? Gentoo's portage still needs to work more to catch up..

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=598
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=11

micha_bsd · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 1 Location: Ulm, Germany

I agree with mezz.
Portage is not that stable as Ports at the moment. Don't compare Ports with an old tree to Portage with a new tree! With Ports I can build nearly everything (with an up-to-date tree). With Portage a lot of build failures happened to me (also with an up-to-date tree). Ports had a lot of time to evolve, but Portage is work in progress, don't forget that.
I switched back to FreeBSD because of that. But I will watch the development of Gentoo, it could become a great distro.

snoopey · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 17