Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> On Mar 8, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
>> Have you tried building from source?
> 
> Yes, I am doing that now - but this is a Mac IIvx. The compilation 
> started before supper last night, and is still running after breakfast!

Hee hee.  Try an SE/30.  ;)

> My point is that netatalk is "just another package" to MOST ports, but 
> tp mac68k and macppc it is an extremely important one that ought to be 
> included, in binary form, so that it can be used immediately.
> 
> For the record, it took me THREE TIMES as long to get a binary version 
> of netatalk working, in spite of considerable help from this list, than 
> it took to get the base version of 2.0 installed and working. This is 
> excessive for such an important package.

I tend to agree that binary packages take a long time to appear after a 
revision (of either OS or package).  I don't know if they are produced 
in some kind of prioritization order, but if so I'd suggest putting 
netatalk toward the top for mac68k.  If I were a NetBSD maintainer I 
wouldn't want to start altering the base install packages by platform, 
but making binaries available more quickly would sure help.

Tim
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