Re: pkgsrc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:55:59PM -0700, walt wrote:
> I'll see if I can hack around the 'patch' errors.  Yes, I know the 'wip'
> stands for work-in-progress, so I'm not criticizing pkgsrc.  My point
> really is that a great deal of work is being duplicated by groups of
> talented people who really should be working together.  Yes, this is
> the stated goal of the pkgsrc team -- I wish them success in uniting
> the open-source developers, and I hope it happens sooner than later!

Actually, they do work together. pkgsrc-wip is meant as playground for
new packages, new maintainers and things not acceptable for the main tree.
For the rest, quite a bit of syncing occurs.

Joerg