Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hiten Pandya wrote:
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> It's extremely important from a user point of view to start pushing 
> pkgsrc's bootstrap with the system, otherwise it is a hassle.  This 
> would also imply in adding a NO_PKGTOOLS make option, for and when 
> building snapshots and releases.
>
> By next release, i.e. 1.4, people would have already got some form of 
> pkgsrc bootstrap under use, thus simplyfing a whole lot of things from a 
> migration perspective, i.e. most of the hard work of getting people to 
> use it will be done.
>
> It is vital that we choose and stick with a package management solution, 
> otherwise we will be stuck in between two.  Vanilla Pkgsrc will not be 
> perfect, but it can be vastly improved upon by our own layer on top.
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Like others I heartly agree on this, please just one "official 
supported" ports system, I don't care which one it is just that we get 
over it.

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