Reply to V. Velox & questions about ``evangelism''

[m***@pasternak.w.lub.pl]

ports collection

... Gentoo Linux
... pkgsrc
... propably some more build systems I haven't heard of.

From Gentoo Linux user's perspective, Portage build system will be better,

than FreeBSD Ports, just because s/he will be able to rebuild whole system,
not only 3rd-part apps using single interface.

Other your points are very important, there aren't many opensource operating
systems, which provide such things.

[m***@pasternak.w.lub.pl]

good point. I've never tried it myself, but I've heard it's fairly cool
if you're going to use linux. they don't anywhere near 10,000 ports
though do they?

I don't think so. Also, Portage is quite new technology (I am not saying it
is immature, but well... everything needs to be throughly tested, doesn't
it? :) Anyway, the point of my e-mail was, that as some more operating
systems use Ports-like build systems, advocating FreeBSD using only this
single argument misses the point.