Re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD

2003-12-03 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Perry E.Metzger wrote: party. Our pkgsrc infrastructure exists to make it easy to compile third party software, but we do not claim that Emacs and /bin/ls are supported the same way. We've got about 4500 packages in pkgsrc -- a fraction of the number some folks like

Re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD

2003-12-03 Thread Momchil Velikov
Perry == Perry E Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perry Why do you want NetBSD's kernel? You obviously believe everything that Perry NetBSD has done is fecal, so what would the point of contaminating the Perry superior GNU userland with a crappy NetBSD kernel? Done with the strawman already ?

re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD

2003-12-03 Thread matthew green
This may be possible under NetBSD as well (especially with a generous helping of COMPAT option enabling), but given the number of dire warnings the manuals all bear about building things in the correct order, I'm not willing to trust that it's flexible enough to start doing

Re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD

2003-12-03 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:30:09AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Joel Baker wrote: Another thing that is interesting is that most of pkgsrc is usable on non-NetBSD systems. Many admins use it to have a consistent third-party software installation method under Solaris

Re: A request from the NetBSD folks [ please discuss ]

2003-12-03 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:41:00AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi Joel, On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the general opinion seems to be that Debian GNU/KNetBSD is a better name for the port

Re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD

2003-12-03 Thread Perry E . Metzger
Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Perry E.Metzger wrote: party. Our pkgsrc infrastructure exists to make it easy to compile third party software, but we do not claim that Emacs and /bin/ls are supported the same way. We've got about 4500 packages in pkgsrc -- a

Re: A request from the NetBSD folks [ please discuss ]

2003-12-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Joel, On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the general opinion seems to be that Debian GNU/KNetBSD is a better name for the port than Debian GNU/NetBSD, both because it is more specific about