Fwd: Unified BSD?

[Martin]

I understand that, what your not getting is that i am talking about the
release schedule of the individual BSD distros not the release schedule of
pkgsrc.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:02 PM, John Marino <netbsd at marino.st> wrote:

> On 12/4/2012 07:14, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>
>> Martin<martin.kelly4000 at gmail.**com <martin.kelly4000 at gmail.com>>
>>  writes:
>>
>>  I can see how you could misunderstand what i said.
>>>
>>> My point was about that each of the BSD's use pkgsrc in a different way
>>> and
>>> the releases from FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD or DflyBSD don't all rely on
>>> the
>>> exact same packages for every release (i.e. NetBSD 6 and FreeBSD 9 do not
>>> use the same version of GNOME-2 desktop; poor example), and that
>>> generally
>>> per BSD release they generally blob the binaries that are compatible for
>>> that release together.
>>>
>>
>> No, pkgsrc is one for everyone, unless someone maintains his own branch.
>> As far as I know, only DragonFly and SmartOS do, though nothing serious
>> stops them from using original distribution. Thus NetBSD 6 and FreeBSD 9
>> use
>> the same version of GNOME, provided that they use supported pkgsrc branch.
>>
>
>
> DragonFly has a git mirror mirror of the pkgsrc cvs repository, but its
> contents are identical to what is in cvs.  I would not classify this as
> "maintaining its own branch".  We use the same distribution as NetBSD.
>
> Just clarifying this statement to avoid misinformation.
>