On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote: > In article <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407251459370.72188_at_wonkity.com> you write: > > >Writing "an article" is hard. Writing a small section on how deleting > >packages is different between pkg and, say, apt, is much easier. The > >scope is known. > > Indeed, it's pretty trivial. > > I think the sort of article Craig was looking for was more on the > order of > > apt command pkg command > apt-get update pkg update (*1) > ... ... > > (*1) Explanation of differences between how apt behaves and how pkg > behaves. > > The set of common apt operations is pretty well-known, and most of > them have direct pkg(8) equivalents. > > > > Garrett is describing exactly what I am looking for. > > I'm not looking for a complicated article explaining the internal > differences between apt and pkg. Very few people have the > interest or patience to read that. > > Providing a simple table contrasting the basic apt/yum/rpm/pkg commands > for installing/upgrading/deleting packages is mostly what is needed. This gave me a flashback to the last time somebody said "Oh, I just want a simple little program." :) > We need to show people that installing packages on FreeBSD is > not like the "bad old pkg_add days" which people have bad memories of. We need to show that pkg is as good as what people are used to on modern Linux > distributions. The wiki should be ideal for this. Start a table, fill in what you can, and others can fill in the other parts.Received on Fri Jul 25 2014 - 22:03:19 UTC
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