Hi, I had several talks with somebody (who occassionally also contributes stuff) about NetBSD's current distribution. All in all, his resume was that NetBSD imports too much stuff to base, which is then just left there unmaintained. He reported about security stuff not being fixed, but the pkgsrc versions were better maintained. He had some suggestions about how stuff should be handled. About having a set that includes all the external software, about being able to update base packages from pkgsrc, etc. It is also about flexibility and updating the system. E.g. always downloading the whole tarset for updating a single package might be overkill, plus adding further problems with probably other patched files in base. All in all, we summarized, this was exactly the issue being addressed by syspkgs about nine years ago. So: What is the current status of syspkgs? And what direction shall be taken, is there an overview of what architecture can be expected, or is it an ongoing discussion? Regards, Julian
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