mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: > >>it was underpowered, that I might or might not ever power up again, and >>if I did I wouldn't use ftp.n.o packages on it. > > What else? Self-compiling on a system you already consider outdated? :)
I would use my i386 vm on a "modern" system from 2010, that I have set up to build packages, on which I do my own cowboy pullups to get new versions mid-branch, which I can do easily since I don't need to worry about breaking other people. And if I did power it up, I would only want bash/tmux/m4/emacs-nox11 anda few other things. I certainly don't want kde, firefox, or any desktop stuff. It has only 512M of RAM. That's half of why it's powered off. > Binary packages are more important on systems that we consider old, > doesn't have to be a VAX. Sure, but the question is how many actual people care, and how that trades off against other builds that would be useful that we don't have. For example pkgsrc-current builds for netbsd-10 and 9 would be very useful to improve the state of pkgsrc for all, even if the builds aren't published. pkgsrc doesn't have invasive tracking so we don't really have good data.