Subject: Re: pkgsrc ...
To: Robert.V.Baron <rvb@gluck.coda.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/04/1997 17:02:59
> BUT, one of the long standing criticisms of NetBSD is that there is no
> software build for it.
There's a big difference between shipping pkgsrc with a release, and
creating binary packages using the contents of pkgsrc _for_ a release.
I agree with Jason that the former is unreasonable, since pkgsrc will
spontaneously break over time.
The latter, however, is something which definitely should be done.
Users shouldn't have to compile _anything_ to install binary packages.
chris