Howdy, I am a new convert to NetBSD, after being amazed at how well it 
installed and works on an old PowerMac. I decided to pitch linux and go 
with NetBSD, mostly because of dependency resolution: I knew FreeBSD was 
able  to handle complex installs so NetBSD's ability to do it is a 
welcome idea. Linux (redhat anyway) doesn't grok this and their packages 
are often incompatible with each other.

Now my problem is that I can't get KDE2 to install: I have tried the 
meta-package and the individual pkgs and it seems to be getting worse. I 
went to bed with a working KDE desktop and woke up to find it missing.

I keep hitting issues with libtool requirements being different for some 
of the sub packages, and the whole mess started with libpng.so.1 being 
missing. Turned out I had two versions of libpng installed due to 
different dependencies and symlinking so.1 to so.2 didn't do the rigth 
thing.

I am looking at installing from scratch, qt, then kdebase, kdelibs, and 
the rest of it. Anyone have any easier ways to do this?