PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release

Thu Sep 1 05:52:41 PDT 2005

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:21:33AM +0200, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> I heartly agree, but I wonder how much it will be the "official" port 
> infrastructure, for example (no intend to bikeshed coloring, as long as 
> its green) I being a long and hardish FreeBSD user found /usr/local the 
> logical places for the installed ports, do we intend to default pkgsrc 
> packages installation to there?

I don't think that would be a good idea nor that FreeBSD's decision was
good either. Separating managed and unmanagaed third-party programs
becomes really handy once you have to use the latter :-)

Joerg