CVS removal from the base

[Lucas Holt]

There is also mirports from MirBSD that  is supported on MirBSD, MidnightBSD, and Mac OS X. They also got a pkgsrc port going recently. The problem is that projects have specific needs that other systems don't have. FreeBSD ports are by far the largest and very fast to build. Pkgsrc comes out quarterly so it takes a long time to get patches in or updates as Dragonfly goes through. With MidnightBSD, we wanted all ports to go through fake install so our packages would work all the time and we could write package tools customized for the ports tree. 

Every BSD has different needs and different users. 

Lucas Holt

On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:07 AM, "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost at cordula.ws> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
>> Maybe sometime we will see a project arise that will be a replacement
>> ports/ for more than one BSD, perhaps even extending to Linux, (to
>> avoid reinventing of the wheel that must go on with ports skeletal
>> structs for each OS) ( maybe with an RFC for a port/ skeleton struct
>> ?  If so, that may have ramifications on bits of src moved to ports.
> 
> NetBSD's pkgsrc is already cross-OS (kind of), but it contains
> fewer ports than FreeBSD's ports collection:
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html
> 
>> Cheers,
>> Julian
> 
> -cpghost.
> 
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