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On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:24:23AM -0600, Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Do I have to think if there were so many NBSD users as you can find in Li=
nux world (Debian for example) it woudn't happen? Linux without Mplayer?!!!=
 Can you hear the voices of outrage?
>=20
> One of you said recently the binaries are only spin-offs (by-products) of=
 pkgsrc production (my words with His meaning). Really? Another Gentoo in B=
SD camouflage?

Most Linux distributions only officially support a handful of platforms
for which they have the capacity to build and store binaries.  NetBSD
doesn't really have the resources to do daily builds of all packages
for all supported archs.  If you really want binaries, you can use the
quarterly snapshots.

Personally, I think those are worthless because stuff is often missing
(if it didn't build at the time of the snapshot) or outdated.  And you
can't easily mix and match binary and from-source packages with pkgsrc.

There are a few people out there who build unofficial binaries.  You might
find one of those useful.  Perhaps these people could list themselves
on the community wiki?  (http://wiki.onetbsd.org)

Regards,
Peter
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