At 22:29 Uhr +0000 17.12.2001, Chris Pinnock wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:51:01PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
>> Well, since you asked for it: Because Darwin, Solaris and friends will
>> always be second class citizens within the NetBSD pkg world? Always playing
>> catchup, being fixed if and when a NetBSD developer "finds the time"?
>
>Quite a lot of development on NetBSD is done when developers find the
>time -- that is due to NetBSD being a volunteer-based project.

Sure. I myself work on tiny aspects of NetBSD, mostly in the mac68k niche,
"when I find the time".

>Recently, several developers have spent time getting pkgsrc to work better on
>Solaris, Darwin and Linux.

Which is most laudable but still a far cry from the development,
maintenance and documentation efforts that go into the _NetBSD_ aspects of
the package system.

>(I guess for pkgsrc NetBSD will always be priority -- after all, it is
>"the NetBSD packages collection".)

Exactly. As you acknowledge that simple fact, you make my point.

This leaves room for a package system that explicitely supports several
platforms on an equal base -- like NetBSD has only first class citizens
when it comes to supported platforms, contrary to, say, Linux. When
OpenPackages started off, I felt that targeting a *BSD package system was a
good cause.

If you feel that expressing that thought is offensive, I apologize. I had
no intention to insult anyone, least of all the pkg workers.

	hauke


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