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Re: upcoming anniversary



Gary Thorpe wrote:
--- Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

Yes.  We compile a list of all of the improvements  pkgsrc has made
over the FreeBSD ports collection from which it forked, bind them
into
convenient 500-page leather-bound volumes a la library copies of the
Oxford Unabridged English Dictionary (complete with velveteen
bookmark), send them to a bunch of free software organizations, and
ask why more people don't use pkgsrc. ;)

--Blair


Just out of curiosity: what advantages does pkgsrc have over FreeBSD
ports? Maybe someone could write them down and stick them in a web page
for NetBSD advocacy?


Cool thing you can do with pkgsrc #3134:

In the computer labs at school they have solaris workstations,
but the installed software is poorly maintained. Users have a 50MB
quota. But the machines have several gigabytes of ram+swap, and
/tmp is a tmpfs mount.

In my ~/.login I untar a pkgsrc bootstrap kit to /tmp/pkg
and then pkg_add some prebuilt binary packages I need to get
my projects done. (Packages are hosted on my server at home.)
When I logout, the directory in /tmp is removed.

-Tobias




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