On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:43:50 -0400 Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that we should hide from pkgsrc libraries that don't have stable APIs > or are not expected to be exposed by the base operating system. The historical > approach of exposing everything was causing problems. Now that we have > /usr/lib/private we can take a more balanced approach. This is reasonable and FreeBSD handled libzstd in the same manner initially. But they are in the process of moving it to base proper in -current: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/9c401bf14854ef20e5e187395a686b0d1b7bcb5f On Debian and RHEL derivatives it is a dependency of systemd so it always comes with the base system as a nonremovable package. I propose it should promoted to the same category as lzma, gzip and bzip2 for NetBSD 12. That is we install it "normally" in the base system. Kind regards, -Tobias
