justin@theprovider.com writes:
> I had a general rambling question:
> 
> 	If NetBSD is aiming towards BSD and POSIX standards, why do so
> many of the packages in pkgsrc have patches in their directories? Is it
> that the programmers are so absent minded that they could give a damn
> about who compiles it as long as it compiles on the machine they are
> working on?

Some package maintainers care, some don't.  Some packages use
inherently system-dependent functionality, and the package maintainers
haven't yet pulled in the changes needed to support NetBSD.

Of course, there's also the issue that if you think "BSD" is a
standard, or if you think that any form of POSIX is enough to produce
a useful, whizzy application program, you're sorely mistaken.



cgd
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Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.