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hi,

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:40:02PM +0100, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
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> on netbsd-announce mailing-list,
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> Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:33 -0800, i believe Chris Demetriou wrote,
> (...)
> > Code from NetBSD has been included in countless other projects, Open
> > Source and otherwise.  It has been used in research and education as
> > well as in commercial products.  Literally thousands of third-party
> > applications have been made available for use under NetBSD through
> > the use of ``pkgsrc,'' the NetBSD Packages Collection.  Keeping with
> > NetBSD's goal of portability, pkgsrc also supports several other
> > operating systems, thereby allowing consistent installation and
> > management of third-party software across multiple platforms.
> (...)
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> I don't get it, the NetBSD Package Collection is portable on other OSs?

yes, the OSes currently supported are NetBSD, Solaris, Darwin, Linux,
IRIX, FreeBSD and OpenBSD (OSF/1 support is under development).

for more information see http://www.pkgsrc.org/.
e.g.:

  http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html#bootstrap


regards,

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