Question (fwd)

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 20:08:17 +0100, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 19:25, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 18:10:59 +0000 (UTC), Viktor Madarasz wrote:
> > > Well the only thing it reminds me is the system slackware used called
> > > Slackbuilds.. seems remotely similar..
> >
> > Yes, there is (was?) something comparable over in Linux land.
> > If I remember correctly, Gentoo also supported a more or less
> > standardized infrastructure to obtain sources from a repository
> > and build applications from it, instead of manually downloading
> > tar-balls, extracting them, "./configure && make && make install",
> > or, today's fashion, "curl myapp.example.com | sudo bash". Wait,
> > today git must always be involved... :-)
> 
> 
> Err... what about pkgsrc? It evolved from FreeBSD ports. I use it to
> compile and install applications on Debian.

Yes! Exactly that slipped my mind. I haven't used Debian for
years, but of course how pkgsrc worked was quite comparable
to FreeBSD, I remember that. :-)


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