> In "Re: DEC uses NetBSD", Rob Deker <deker@digex.net> wrote: 
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm currently working on recompiling my hundreds of apps ive had 
> > > sitting around in bin form since 0.8, and im keeping diffs of all my 
> > > work. (and a log of all the out of the box stuff)  If someone gives 
> > > me somewhere to put these, Ill put em there..
> > > 
> > I have a place where things like that can live, but it should maybe be on 
> > ftp.netbsd.org as well. Before we go throwing ported software all over the 
> > place though I think that it would behoove us to come up with some form of
> > organization for it. 
> 
> I agree, but is this really what the NetBSD community needs?  Most things
> build for NetBSD right out of the box (which is good, and stems from people
> feeding any diffs back to the author of the program).

It is certainly one thing that NetBSD needs.

NetBSD needs more users.  Having precompiled binaries makes life a lot
easier for 'random users.'  (So does a good install process, etc.)
'Random users' who are trying to get 'real work' (i.e. their
application, be it software development or some other application)
done do _not_ want to be bothered configuring and compiling random
software.

Hell, it annoys me to have to compile the few programs that I need
(ssh, emacs, a few X programs) when setting up on a new architecture
(or upgrading the software), and i'm _used_ to having to do it.


cgd