Re: libarchive compatibility issue

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:06:32PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:42:21PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > > Feel free to submit patches. My interest in retro computing is limited.
> > 
> > sounds like it's time to revert the dependency on libarchive then, and go
> > back to using external commands, if libarchive will not support all of our
> > pkgsrc platforms.
> 
> Last time I checked, NetBSD 1.5 is not considered a supported platform.

''supported'' by whom? tnf? pkgsrc? someone else?

pkgsrc is all about supporting platforms that others don't.

we don't want arbitrary restrictions in pkgsrc.

thanks,
alistair