On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 16:48:49 +0000 (UTC)
bob prohaska  wrote:

> Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:
> > On Sun, 01 Mar 2020 06:10:57 GMT
> >
> >         The challenge is to find the complete set of sources that
> > corresponds to what you have installed. I've never succeeded in doing
> > that with any Linux installation - to be fair I've not tried in many
> > years. With the BSDs OTOH it's easy because they're set up that way. I
> > have no idea about self-hosting RiscOS.
> >
>
> That's the nail of the thumb 8-) I'm very familiar with FreeBSD and
> now wondering what alternate options exist for self-hosted systems.

 Others have reminded me that Gentoo is a self-hosting Linux
distribution - in many ways it looks like FreeBSD will when pkg-base
lands. The build system is complex (portage/emerge) but it is self hosting
by design like the BSDs.

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