Re: Glibc-based Debian GNU/KNetBSD
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 Debian support, but quite a number -- and in the
Counting packages doesn't work well. Debian splits up many, many software
suites into separate packages, such as docs, libraries, programs/
executables, development headers, and shared data. It is common to have
one package in pkgsrc be represented by three-or-more Debian packages.
Only for a few packages in pkgsrc are they split up. (I do agree that
separating big software into seperate packages is a good idea -- I use new
freedesktop.org xlibs which is in over 15 packages.)
> course of making them all work we routinely find that we have to fix
> things in NetBSD. For example, programs like xmms have inspired many
> changes to our threads system.
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 and Linux. pkgsrc is used (or
has been used) under BSD/OS, Mac OS X, Darwin OS, Irix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
HP-UX, and others. In fact, one pkgsrc developer is beginning to use
pkgsrc (via mingw compiler) to provide software for Windows platforms.
I even use pkgsrc to build and install Linux the kernel, glibc, iptables,
vixie-cron, shadow, all components of my Linux distribution. (A few of
these pkgsrc packages are not in pkgsrc or pkgsrc-wip yet though.)
Jeremy C. Reed
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