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portupgrade vs apt-get

Has anyone here used Debian Linux Apt-get? How does it compare to the ports tree and portupgrade tool? Apt-get has every computer user at my old college declaring Debian the second coming.

Not that I am interested in running debian, I have played with various linuxes in the past, switched over to Openbsd, and then free, which I am now running on most of my machines. So far both bsds have been a much nicer experience.

-jon door

>> How does it compare to the ports tree and portupgrade tool?

If you are comparing rpmfind vs. apt-get, note, both install software from precompiled binary, then that makes a little sense. ports system in *BSDs installs software by building from source, thus not compariable.

>> switched over to Openbsd, and then free

Since you have already done that, why bother to ask this question? You should know how ports mechanism works.

Mostly I was looking to see what you thought about apt-get as a package system, and if it was comparable to the ports. Many people I have talked to say apt-get makes debian the �best� OS, while I�m not one to jump at their word and install linux, it is nice to see how different systems compare.

Thanks for the information about apt-get using precompiled binaries, that�s what I was looking for.

-jon

BTW it is also possible to download the source and make it automatically with apt-get. Just use the apt-get -b source <package> - command.

just my $0.02
robson

that�s right! there can be made separate entries in /etc/apt/sources.list beginning with deb-src! so you have deb & deb-src in debian and you have ports & packages in freebsd...