On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 06:54:19PM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:05:29PM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > pkgsrc is NetBSD's version of FreeBSD ports framework but also ported > > to other, mostly (quasi-)Unix OSes including even FreeBSD. > > Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> responded: > > > To correct a misapprehension: although many years ago pkgsrc and > > FreeBSD ports shared common ancestry, it is not fair to say that > > pkgsrc is their "version". pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports have different > > goals, and to that purpose, pkgsrc has been through multiple major > > rewrites and no longer even vaguely resembles FreeBSD ports. As > > well, the FreeBSD ports infrastructure has evolved substantially. > > > IIUC pkgsrc's major goal is to run on as many OSes as possible, and > > to that end has to do a tremendous amount of work to evade those > > limitations. We don't have that problem, nor the bootstraping problems > > that are associated. > > > I'm sure there are many other places where we have diverged. > > > mcl > > pkgsrc is NetBSD's version of FreeBSD ports framework in that it plays the > same role in NetBSD, even if the infrastructures have greatly diverged. > > Nothing like buildlink3.mk in FreeBSD ports. > > But I see partial resemblances in the directory structures of pkgsrc and > FreeBSD ports framework. > > Most of the base system of *BSD would be packages in Linux. This poses great > difficulty porting a BSD package-management system to Linux, as pkgsrc has > tried to do. What to do with coreutils, util-linux, udev and now systemd? >
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