Subject: Re: the netbsd way
To: None <espie@nerim.net>
From: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/31/2006 20:10:31
>>>>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:32:08 +0100, Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> said:
> One thing that strikes me though is that, even though some of you
> talked about FreeBSD's package system,
Since both OpenBSD's ports and NetBSD's pkgsrc are derived from
FreeBSD's ports, it's natural to mention its origin, isn't it?
> Guys, it's 2006, there is absolutely no reason to ignore OpenBSD.
Well, it does NOT ignore OpenBSD, rather, pkgsrc supports OpenBSD as
its platform.
> We rewrote our pkgtools infrastructure.
Unfortunately, they are written in perl.
Since NetBSD will never import perl into the base system, OpenBSD
pkgtools cannot be used on NetBSD (as a tool in the base system,
I mean).
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soda