Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

On 7/18/14, 6:28 AM, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2014-07-17 16:12, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> On 17 July 2014 13:03, Alberto Mijares <amijaresp_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> 3) The binary packages need to work out of the box
>>>> 4) .. which means, when you do things like pkg install apache, it
>>>> can't just be installed and not be enabled, because that's a bit of a
>>>> problem;
>>>
>>> No. Please NEVER do that! The user must be able to edit the files and
>>> start the service by himself.
>> Cool, so what's the single line command needed to type in to start a
>> given package service?
>>
>>
>>
>> -a
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> We could make 'service apache22 enable'
>
> which can run: sysrc -f /etc/rc.conf apache22_enable="YES"
>
> and 'service apache22 disable'
>
> that can use sysrc -x
>
> And then ports can individually extend the functionality if they require.
>
I like this a lot.

That said, if other distros are setting up apache in 2 steps and we 
require 3 then we require 50% MORE STEPs!

Or they require 33% LESS steps than us.

Just to put it into perspective.  Should FreeBSD be 50% more difficult 
or time consuming to configure?

-Alfred