Is there any chance of a consensus on this idea: adding another set to
NetBSD's base distribution called plus.tgz or util.tgz.

There are a number of packages that are already part of the other *BSD
base distributions that I install from pkgsrc on every NetBSD box I set
up or upgrade, including:

package ~size  already in              reason
------- -----  ----------------------  ---------------------------------
sudo    113K   OpenBSD                 Better than everyone using su(1)
userppp 248K   OpenBSD & FreeBSD       Awesome ppp/pppoe
tcsh    331K   FreeBSD & DragonflyBSD  Useful alternative to csh(1)
lynx    1.8M   OpenBSD                 Useful for finding more info
perl    11M    OpenBSD                 Used for everything

Is this a good idea?

As far as I know these are all very well-tested and portable packages,
that would cause minimal pain even on more obscure platforms.

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