Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Sep 2005 11:55 UTC, submitted by ghen
Matt Dillon has announced that the next release of DragonFly BSD will use NetBSD's pkgsrc as its official package management system, instead of "dfports" (FreeBSD's Ports with DragonFly overrides), which had already been abandoned by developers in favour of pkgsrc over the last few months. pkgsrc is a portable package management system, developed by NetBSD, and supports DragonFly officially since October 2004.
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Member since:2005-07-06
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It is a little disappointing to see the hopes of a next-gen packaging system dashed but pkgsrc is here now and it works pretty well, so I understand the decision. DragonFly doesn't have enough developers to devote to working on a pie-in-the-sky perfect package manager at this point in time.