CVS removal from the base

C. P. Ghost cpghost at cordula.ws
Wed Dec 14 15:07:31 UTC 2011


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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