In hanse-ml.netbsd.tech-pkg hermit@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote:
|* mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu (mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu) [990810 21:20]:
|| I also think that it would be nice to have 1 big readme that has
|| everything in alphabetical order (not just 1 catergory, but all packages)
|
|There is something like this. Try "make print-index" in the main pkgsrc-
|directory. You will get a complete package list.

While this works well on a local pkgsrc, this does not work when
browsing the browsable web-listing on the ftp-server. Not everyone
wants to keep pkgsrc. Some users just want to install precompiled
packages. And they need the search function etc. for this too.

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