FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve

[Mark Linimon]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:20:40PM +0000, Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> That's even more strange given that early years, pkg_* tools in NetBSD
> (pkgsrc) and FreeBSD got active code exchange. Why has it stopped later?..

Although we do talk to each other e.g. at conferences, each of our projects
is sufficiently occupied with current tasks.  There are some things that
they can do that we can't and vice versa.

The codebase divergence is huge, and the target audience is different as
well.  (For instance, FreeBSD isn't worried about boostrapping on other
OSes, as pkgsrc is.  Attempting to deal with it is a huge task that would
simply give us no benefit.)  If you take a look at the codebases, you'll
see how big the divergence is now.

mcl