Re: Priority binary packages

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 10:53:24PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> I'm aware this could be opening a can of worms as your critical
> package is my useless bloated piece of cruft, but I suspect there
> could be a workable set including some shells, a web server, a couple
> of databases, base packages for scripting languages (php, perl,
> python, ruby). For desktops some window managers, web browser, image
> viewer/editor.

There's a set of basic packages that should give an overview of the
quality of pkgsrc support for a platform listed in the severely
outdated pkgsrc/doc/STATUS file. That probably can give you a few good
hints, after some serious updating :)
 Thomas