[nylug-talk] I'm a Gentoo convert.

[Laurence Dukhovny]

Ruben Safir wrote:
> The topic was Portage and the parallel to the native packaging of Apache.
> Both depend heavely on autoconf and well constructed make files to create
> a packaging system, one which has an advantage, BTW, of not leaving the
> end user in the dark why his stuff is broken when the shared libraries
> don't match.

FreeBSD ports uses well constructed make files. Portage is a system 
written in Python that uses files called ebuilds to describe the package.

Just to clear that up.

-Viza