On 5/16/25 10:52 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Am I mistaken that portage is unique to Gentoo, while pkgsrc is also
> used for applications on systems other than its native NetBSD?
Portage is also used by "Prefix", as I mentioned above, to run on any
Linux system (e.g. for unprivileged use on HPC
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 21:52:14 -0500
> From: Jacob Bachmeyer
>
> On 5/16/25 13:07, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> > On 5/16/25 12:31 PM, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > [...]
> >> (a) the same pkgsrc packages are available on, e.g., NetBSD 9.x (which
> >> is not EOL); and
> >>
> >> (b) pkgsrc is used
Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Would "systems using pkgsrc-2025Q1, notably including NetBSD 9.x and NetBSD
> 10.1" have been a fair way of describing that set?
I think that's a lot better, although I would probably
have phrased it as:
Systems using screen(1) built from pkgsrc, including
binary packag
On 5/16/25 13:07, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On 5/16/25 12:31 PM, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
[...]
(a) the same pkgsrc packages are available on, e.g., NetBSD 9.x (which
is not EOL); and
(b) pkgsrc is used on platforms other than NetBSD, including macOS,
SmartOS, and various Linux distribution
