I believe in the recent Article below, Michael Wolfson was suggesting 
that we could use the enormously superior NetBSD package system to 
install NetBSD/macppc binaries that will WORK on OS X.

Is this completely true? If so, what are the details? Do we get to use 
the tools like pkg_add etc or just pax, with no tracking/dependency checks?

That would be such an incredibly sweet alternative to fink!

And if this is the case, couldn't OS X binaries work on NetBSD without 
emulation?



In the Article "Re: Booting from hd-DOS partition"
Anselm Garbe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:12:38AM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> 
>>At 12:55 PM +0200 4/8/03, you wrote:
>>
>>:)I own a summer 2002 ibook (G3 700, 20GB, Radeon 7500) and I don't like
>>:)Mac OS X because I worked with UNIX for years now and I don't like
>>:)click-guis, like Aqua - I prefer ion, larswm, ratpoison or such wm's.
>>
>>No problem.  Just install XFree86, log on with the username ">console" and
>>it'll give you a text console login prompt.  Then you startx.  Install the
>>NetBSD packages (or fink) and the only way you'd know you weren't running a
>>"normal" BSD is that power management would work, and you'd have to deal
>>with NetInfo.
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