On Mar 24, 12:54pm, Curt Sampson wrote:
> Subject: Re: DEC uses NetBSD
> On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Jim Wise wrote:
>
> > Well, I was taking it as given that we'll have to write whatever from
> > scratch.
>
> This is Just Not Worth It. The fact that we don't have a proper
> packages system at this point (despite years of discussions) is a
> pretty strong indication that nobody out there is really all that
> terribly interested in devoting his life to maintaining this sort
> of thing. To me, that says it would be a very good idea to go with
> the FreeBSD system and be as compatable as we can with them. They've
> done a lot of work in this area and I've heard noises that they
> would be willing to look at a combined `BSD ports' package; let's
> take advantage of this.

Well, at least one port has a packages system (arm32). Admittedly it could do
with a complete overhaul if it were to be used as a cross-port system.

Cheers

Rob Black