On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:27:47AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Monday, May 06, 2013 14:13:59 Francois Tigeot wrote: > > Now, the _very_ interesting (and unexpected) part is the less than 2% pkgsrc > > packages usage. > > Maybe it's just that pkgng is so much better, maybe it's that pkgsrc users > > prefer to build software from source. Difficult to know. > > In my case, it's not that I *prefer* building from source, but that for at > least one quarter, there were no binary packages available, at least for 32- > bit. pkg_rolling-replace takes over a week, and I have to restart it when it > conks out on a package, often because of the Python version. I'd much rather > use pkgin.
And now that there are DragonFly-3.4 pkgsrc packages, do you use them ? I only counted 3.4 packages to get dports and pkgsrc on equal footing. Both package types have been available since April 30 at least. -- Francois Tigeot
