On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Gergo Szakal wrote: > Regarding other parts of the log: as a freebsd-user, you should have had > some basic idea on getting the pkgsrc tree and unpacking it (although I > don't know what permits DF developers to include it on the CD, maybe > licence?
The pkgsrc infrastructure is BSD licensed. The individual patches for various software are generally just the same license as the software they patch. > Or a /usr/sbin/getpkgsrc script would probably do as well.) It > is much like the ports tree, expect the (very stupid) interactive > setting of build options (this was one of the reasons I dropped > freebsd). pkgsrc does not prompt for build options like FreeBSD Ports. (But pkgsrc does have build options that can be customized. It is a lot more consistent that FreeBSD ports which are hit and miss on how to configure stuff.) > I have always considered the pkgsrc way of life quite > straightforward, especially because I have FreeBSD and OpenBSD > experience. Could you describe your pkgsrc problems more? > (I admit that mplayer in pkgsrc tree is quite outdated.) For mplayer, you may want to send-pr it or turn in a bug report so it gets updated in pkgsrc. Or a polite note to the MAINTAINER. Jeremy C. Reed
