On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:47:12PM +0200, ciol wrote:
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.
Oh, I see. Well, this is one opinion I do not share, but you're of
course welcome to have it.
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.
If you think pkgsrc should be in Debian, you can always create a Debian
package for it, and maintain that yourself...