On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner
<stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
Madhurya Kakati put forth on 5/26/2010 10:15 PM:
> Is there a bsd ports like system in debian?
I believe you're looking for the Gentoo Portage system:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml
AFAIK, there is no Debian equivalent, nor any other Linux distro, that manages
and builds packages from source, in the manner of BSD ports or Gentoo Portage.
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Stan
You can however do almost the equivalent of an "emerge world" in Gentoo. You can use apt-build to recompile all packages on a system using different optimization flags:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/apt-build .
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