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[gentoo-user] Can Portage be used with FreeBSD or NetBSD?
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Thomas Mueller
Jun 1, 2021, 6:00:03 AM6/1/21
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Can Portage be used as a package manager with anything other than Linux?
I like some features of Portage; think it might be better than FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc, or is just a case of the grass being greener on the other side?
I like the option "--with-bdeps=y", wish FreeBSD's synth and poudriere had that option.
But I don't want to use Portage where it would be incompatible.
Portage's assumption of location of python binary and /bin/bash are contrary to anything non-Linux, or even a Linux that uses another shell such as dash or mksh.
Tom
I like some features of Portage; think it might be better than FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc, or is just a case of the grass being greener on the other side?
I like the option "--with-bdeps=y", wish FreeBSD's synth and poudriere had that option.
But I don't want to use Portage where it would be incompatible.
Portage's assumption of location of python binary and /bin/bash are contrary to anything non-Linux, or even a Linux that uses another shell such as dash or mksh.
Tom
Michael
Jun 1, 2021, 10:50:03 AM6/1/21
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On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 10:59:27 BST Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Can Portage be used as a package manager with anything other than Linux?
Yes, it used to be, but from what I know the *BSD projects were abandoned due
> Can Portage be used as a package manager with anything other than Linux?
to lack of maintainers.
> I like some features of Portage; think it might be better than FreeBSD ports
> or NetBSD pkgsrc, or is just a case of the grass being greener on the other
> side?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_BSD
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