<div dir="ltr">DragonFly and pkgsrc go through a repeated pattern where a package will update in pkgsrc and break on DragonFly. Someone using DragonFly will get commit access for pkgsrc and be able to correct problems... and then gets overwhelmed because it's effectively solo package maintenance for 10,000 packages. Even with that, packages would break from release to release because they'd be updated in pkgsrc and break on DragonFly, and the pkgsrc maintainers were busy on other platforms.<div>
<br></div><div>Pkgsrc also doesn't really have a workable binary solution, and the quarterly release scheme generally worked out so that each DragonFly release had up to date packages for at best half of a release's lifetime - usually less. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Dports specifically creates binary packages for use, with all the advantages that provides, and uses FreeBSD's ports system as an underlay, so there are more ports to use (20K vs 11K, I think) It's possible to create dports-specific overlays, so if something is removed or changed to be incompatible in FreeBSD, it won't break the corresponding item in dports; the older version will continue to be built.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Pkgsrc has been very useful for DragonFly, and several of the pkgsrc developers have been very helpful to me and to others, but dports is filling the need for third-party software management more efficiently.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Pierre Abbat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phma@bezitopo.org" target="_blank">phma@bezitopo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thursday, September 26, 2013 20:50:16 Justin Sherrill wrote:<br>
> No, no pkgsrc binaries have been built. Someone else can jump in to do so<br>
> if they want, but it won't be me. The next release will be with dports.<br>
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Why are we switching to dports?<br>
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Pierre<br>
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