Quoting Jeremy C. Reed (reed@reedmedia.net):
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> 
> > I don't get it, the NetBSD Package Collection is portable on other OSs?
> 
> This last week I read about Solarpack which will be providing a "A
> repository of 1400+ pre-compiled packages of free software for Solaris
> systems". It is based on pkgsrc. It is at
> http://solarpack.sourceforge.net/

Of course that "precompiled" thing is the issue for many of us.
It's why rpm's just scare me (built by undocumented J Random Use, 
hope he's not evil).

Sunfreeware is fine, but they use directories and permissions I 
find wrong (/usr/local/bin/ should NOT be owned by bin- that's just bad).

No I'll take pkgsrc/ports in a second.