"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@schemamania.org> wrote:

>If I may be allowed to pontificate....

You may indeed. You are the Pontiff and I claim my £5.

>pkgsrc is so-called for a reason: the folks who work on the project are
>much more devoted to building from source than to binary packages.  Binary
>packages aren't the objective, as they are for example with Debian. 
>They're just a natural artifact of the work of working on build
>infrastructure and dependencies.  

Understood, thanks.

>In my experience, I've found pkgsrc works pretty well, especially if you
>stay on the well trodden path.  KDE may take overnight to build, but
>likely as not in the morning it will be installed.  

I look forward to trying it, maybe quite soon if I can't get the bunnies
to work. pkg_add should just work as well though...

>Just one fan's opinion, of course.  

I'm definitely becoming a fan too. Net works just fine on some old
hardware on which Free failed to install and it has drivers for my
laptop's soundcard, which I've never seen on *bsd before. I wouldn't
be surprised if it works on the Yamaha SW1000XG in my desktop PC ;)

-- 
John.