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

[Ruben Safir]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:25:17AM -0500, Laurence Dukhovny wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thak you for the edification.  As I said, I never used it.  

If I'm to understand you correctly  the system compiles without the use
of make?

Ruben

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