Summary of changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in December 2000
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A number of changes have been made to the categories - thanks to
Thomas Klausner for his work - so we now have separate categories for
window-managers, time-based utilities, financial utilities, and chat
programs.

Notable additions to the packages collection include:  auctex, bind9,
bsdpak, clanbomber, common-mml, crossfire-server and client,
cupsomatic additions, daemontools, djbdns, fair-identd, gnotepad,
ibutton-pdkit, icu, libiconv, meschach, minpack, newsfetch, various
perl utilities, pcvt utilities, php4 and related utilities, plex86,
postmark, quake3arena, realplayer8, rid, sslwrap, stalin, stlport,
more suse compatibility packages, ucspi-tcp, vslisp, xbattbar, xbuffy,
xdaemon, xteddy and xtend.

Notable updates to the packages collection include:  various
apache-related utilities, balsa, bluefish, bochs, bonobo, checkbot,
the marvellous cowsay, cupsomatic, cyrus, dsniff, freetype2, fsh
(security exploit), fvwm2, gaim, gal, gimp, gloclock, glut, gmp,
gnapster, gnofin, gnucash, gtkhtml, ical, icu, imap-uw, ircII,
jakarta-tomcat, jdbc-postgresql, kdevelop, lesstif, kdoc, libtool,
libwww, LPRng (thanks, kei), Mesa, mozilla, mtools, ncurses, opera,
ORBit, various perl utilities, various php4 extensions, pixmap,
pkg_install, pkglint, plex86, port2pkg, postfix, postgresql, pstree,
qt2, qt2-designer and other qt2 packages, racoon, rp-pppoe, rtty,
scheme48, SDL, sdr, snort, sox, squid, stunnel, sudo, suse
compatibility packages, tidy, ttt, uvscan-dat, xlockmore, xpdf,
xpmroot, and xquote.

Package of the Month - I was inundated by a huge number of nominations,
from qt2-designer to newsfetch (my personal vote was for xbattbar). 
I'll deal more with them next month, but this month I'll make mozilla
the package of the month, since having a browser that compiles out of
the box (on most platforms) is a rarity on the BSD side of the tracks,
and, to my eyes, is quick and seems to deal with simple Javascript OK. 
https support should be in version 0.7, which may even be in pkgsrc by
the time you read this.

Alistair G. Crooks (agc@pkgsrc.org)
Mon Jan 22 07:38:17 GMT 2001

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