People are so used to BSD ports == building from source that it's going to take a while to disabuse them of the notion, I bet. The Slashdot post on the 3.4 release (for instance) had a number of people blithely going on about building from source and so on.
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:42 PM, John Marino <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/30/2013 06:24, Justin Sherrill wrote: >> >> Version 3.4 of DragonFly is officially out. >> If you are planning to try the new dports system for installing >> third-party software, check the DPorts Howto page: >> >> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/ > > > I've been reading a lot of the response to DPorts on the various outlets, > and there's a common misconception that users are expected to build software > from source. > > We definitely should have mentioned in the release announcement and the > HowTo that there are over 19,600 pre-built binary packages available for > both the i386 and x86_64 platforms for the 3.4 release (A greater than > 10,000 package increase over pkgsrc when you removed multiversion > duplicates). > > In fact, building from source is the exception. I expect the vast majority > of users to only use pre-built binaries. The delivery *is* very apt-like > thanks to the hard work Baptiste and others have done making pkgng a > top-notch tool. It's humorous and sad (simultaneously) that the criticism > that DragonFly has received on their package situation is untrue. > > It's a lessons-learned for the next release: Publish the number of pre-built > packages so that it's clear it's not a "compile your own software for two > days" situation. Pkgsrc pre-built package numbers need to get published > too. > > John
