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At Fri, 6 Jul 2007 18:53:02 -0500, David Young wrote:
Subject: Re: is syspkg alive?
>=20
> With a small change of build.sh options, I can cross-build every program
> in the NetBSD base system for every architecture that NetBSD targets.
> That is a useful guarantee that our base system provides.  If programs
> in the base system, today, are only in pkgsrc, tomorrow, then I may lose
> the guaranteed ability to quickly and easily cross-build a useful NetBSD
> network appliance.  Does that help explain why I prefer a comprehensive
> base system?

That's another really good reason that needed clear voicing!  Thanks!

x11 itself is a useful example of how powerful this reason is, even for
creating NetBSD releases themselves.

Even with a dedicated build system, my own in-house support of 1.6.x on
my older sparc systems was seriously tedious, but with full cross-build
support I can now happily support them until they die or lose their
useful purposes, and I no longer need a dedicated build machine quite so
much, though having one for pkgsrc is still a big benefit.

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