Re: zstd headers?

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:43:50 -0400
Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:

> I think that we should hide from pkgsrc libraries that don't have stable APIs
> or are not expected to be exposed by the base operating system. The historical
> approach of exposing everything was causing problems. Now that we have
> /usr/lib/private we can take a more balanced approach.

This is reasonable and FreeBSD handled libzstd in the same manner
initially. But they are in the process of moving it to base proper in
-current:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/9c401bf14854ef20e5e187395a686b0d1b7bcb5f

On Debian and RHEL derivatives it is a dependency of systemd so it
always comes with the base system as a nonremovable package.

I propose it should promoted to the same category as lzma, gzip and bzip2
for NetBSD 12. That is we install it "normally" in the base system.

Kind regards,
-Tobias