Admittedly, I just have a vague sysop-level knowledge of apt (I've made a few Ubuntu PPAs, etc.), and have also never used the BSD tooling. So thank you for correcting my misinformation.
On the other hand, AFAIK, my "misinformation" is also the "common wisdom" in the Linux sphere on the subject. So I guess I have (unintentionally) used the "Linux can't do X" (or in this case, BSD can't do X) rhetorical trick to prod you into providing the hard facts that were needed in this conversation.
I'm not sure whether I feel bad about doing that. I guess I could have couched my assertions about apt in "so this is what I believe"s. Basically, the reverse of a "this is what I hear you saying, am I understanding you correctly" statement—instead, something more of a "this is what 'my' side is taking as axiomatic assumptions, I think; I'll list mine, and you can list yours, and then we can have a discussion without implicit knowledge." Feels very much like http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/, when I put it that way.
On the other hand, AFAIK, my "misinformation" is also the "common wisdom" in the Linux sphere on the subject. So I guess I have (unintentionally) used the "Linux can't do X" (or in this case, BSD can't do X) rhetorical trick to prod you into providing the hard facts that were needed in this conversation.
I'm not sure whether I feel bad about doing that. I guess I could have couched my assertions about apt in "so this is what I believe"s. Basically, the reverse of a "this is what I hear you saying, am I understanding you correctly" statement—instead, something more of a "this is what 'my' side is taking as axiomatic assumptions, I think; I'll list mine, and you can list yours, and then we can have a discussion without implicit knowledge." Feels very much like http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/, when I put it that way.