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Re: PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release


From: walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 05:19:24 -0700

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
-On [20050902 15:43], Jonathan Buschmann (jonthn@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
So it's a build option but the bootstrap doesn't enable that option by
default and without that pkgsrc doesn't fulfill the goal of a package
management system.for Dfly.  Probably I'm worng with that but I want to
know

I haven't checked pkgviews myself yet, but pkgsrc provides all the tools to manage pkgs. However, if one needs a more integrated handling/upgrading/etc then yes something good needs to be developed for pkgsrc still.

wip/pkgmanager is a new attempt at an upgrade tool. I've been making suggestions to the author who has been very happy to have the feedback. It's still alpha-quality at this early stage, but promising.




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