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Hello Rick,

> I wonder if there has ever been much consideration to have more
> third-party software in binary form?
> It would seem to make it easier to install on older systems and
> systems that aren't online (install from CD).
> I have a Pentium II that is online and tar zxvf pkgsrc.tar.gz is still
> running  after over 2 hours.
Yes, don't worry it will take about 3-4 hours. I did a ``tar xzf
pkgsrc.tar.gz'' some months ago on a pentium1 133mhz and it toke
something like 5-6 hours.

However I run pkgsrc on my desktop (this machine, a pentium3 733mhz) and
on my ``small server'' a pentium2 350mhz. On the pentium2 isn't too bad.
For example i builded lighttpd and 50% of things via pkgsrc (the
pentium2 doesn't have X, so i don't need X).

So, if you have a faster computer you can try to make packages[1] your
self, with ``make package'' or different solutions.


 [1]: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/binary.html


Good luck Rick
Ciao, leot :)

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 --leot (Leonardo Taccari)

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