Re: Unified BSD?
Aleksej Saushev <[email protected]>
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Martin <[email protected]> writes: > The biggest fault i see with this idea is updates. Pkgsrc is generally just > one large blob of binaries or source that have been deemed stable and > compatible with that current release of whichever BSD in question > (generally archived by date). Sorry? This is just lie. pkgsrc is generally compatible with a lot more than just current FreeBSD release. I have successfully used it on FreeBSD 6 when it was forgotten upstream. > That means in its current form with each BSD > on a different release schedule there would be incompatibilities for those > BSDs that don't update as frequently (namely NetBSD, OpenBSD & > DragonflyBSD). Which means a change of how source and binaries are archived > not to mention pooled together. pkgsrc release cycle is shorter than that of any of all those operating systems you listed. -- HE CE3OH...