Re: Re: Debian + pkgsrc

[ciol <ciol13@gmail.com>]

Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:33:03PM +0200, ciol wrote:
> > Hello, can you provide binaries from pkgsrc current built with debian 
> > stable?
>
> We don't provide pkgsrc; the NetBSD people do. They put quite some time
> in making sure it works on most POSIXy environments, so theoretically
> using pkgsrc on Debian should work; but don't take my word for it. In
> any case, however, while we don't do weird things to make pkgsrc
> impossible on Debian, we don't really support it either, and so we don't
> provide pkgsrc binaries.
>
> If you really want to use pkgsrc, I suggest you ask the NetBSD people
> rather than Debian.

I thought to make pkgsrc official in Debian.
Like that, Debian could be a real universal OS.
IMHO, debian misses a niche: a stable base system + third-party 
softwares. Mixing stable/{testing, unstable} it's not really that, 
because some stable packages have to be upgraded.

Pkgsrc binaries should be too complicated, but I thought to at least 
provide a pkgsrc bootstrap as official, and a mailing list to discuss 
and report problems with the pkgsrc tree and compile errors.
It should not cost too much time because packages are maintain by netbsd 
developers.