openda...@hushmail.com writes: > Hello, > > Are OpenBSD's packages extremely outdated? What would you say to this > guy? > > "At least with Linux I don't have to wait 6 hours for all my software > to finish compiling. Think about all the trees that are unnecessarily > cut down because of all that compiling. [...snip...] OpenBSD only has > a small number of precompiled packages, and usually extremely > outdated. If you want to get anything useful you have to compile > ports." > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7196494 > > Thanks! > > O.D.
Almost all of the software on my system (all from packages, except kernel/userland/xenocara) is current. There may be some packages that lag behind, but I really don't notice. In fact, the up-to-date applications is one of the reasons that I adopted OpenBSD. If you truly need cutting edge *right now* and it's not in precompiled packages, then there is a current foundation of supporting packages so that you can compile your own version if necessary. I enjoy building an occasional port from time to time, because it reassures me (in warm-fuzzy, freedom loving way) that indeed it is possible to compile from source code.
