On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 derry.birse@ind.alstom.com wrote:

> But whilst I am waiting to try this out can anyone answer the following
> question.
> Is it absolutely necessary to get the NetBSD distributions for any package I
> want to compile or will vanilla distributions do in most cases.

	Vanilla distribution will usually work - the pkgsrc system just
	handles dependencies on other packages and includes any additional
	patches needed (oh, and makes life a hell of a lot simpler :)

		David/absolute

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