pkgsrc and 2.8

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Mon, October 18, 2010 8:33 pm, Samuel J. Greear wrote:
>>    If we are going to do this, NOW is the time.  Comments?
>
> As you already know, I am for this. I don't think auto-merging is
> strictly necessary. It is certainly worth a try, we can cross our
> fingers and hope it just works, but I think the real benefit will be
> having a large/working/stable set of packages to go along with each DF
> release.

I like the idea.  I worry about the work of maintenance being greater than
it would need to be, and increasing the complexity level of pkgsrc (and
then the bulk builds); but vague worries are no reason to stop new things.