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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2005-07-10
In my opinion, FreeBSD ports lost all of its attractiveness after switching to this portsupgrade crap
Heh, the portupgrade "crap" works nicely for me. It's just a convenience - in fact, portupgrade is itself a port, not part of the base system, so you don't have to use it at all. You can use traditional ports or packages if you prefer.
Back to DFly - dfports breakage was becoming a headache for me, so I'm glad to see the project move to the pkgsrc alternative. I'm looking forward to trying it out.