Implement another package management in DfBSD

[Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan]

The BSD I was reminded of is *PacBSD, *which is no longer live. So, it is a
good proposal to support pacman in DragonflyBSD in the future.

Ravenports, advised by Michael Neumann, has resolved my htop issue. Thanks .

On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM Pierre-Alain TORET <pierre-alain at toret.fr>
wrote:

> I never heard of a BSD using pacman as the package manager, but I
> remember the project Hyperbola which did and evolved into HyperbolaBSD,
> maybe that's what you had in mind ?
>
> To answer your remark about DPorts and htop, being able to compile a
> piece of software on DragonFlyBSD doesn't depend on the packaging
> system, it depends on 2 things :
> - does the project support DragonFlyBSD upstream ? if yes, that will
> compile easily
> - if not, did someone take care of porting / patching the upstream code
> to make it compile on DragonFlyBSD, if not, it won't compile
>
> But htop's case is a bit special, because it compiles fine, the failure
> you reported in a previous message is due to the build process not being
> happy because the manpage is not where the plist says it is.
>
> You can apply the following diff to build it :
>
> diff --git a/sysutils/htop/Makefile b/sysutils/htop/Makefile
> index 62e309a804a..c94adfdcc80 100644
> --- a/sysutils/htop/Makefile
> +++ b/sysutils/htop/Makefile
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ GNU_CONFIGURE=        yes
>   CONFIGURE_ARGS=        --enable-unicode
>
>   PLIST_FILES=   bin/htop \
> -               man/man1/htop.1.gz \
> +               share/man/man1/htop.1.gz \
>                  share/applications/htop.desktop \
>                  share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/htop.svg \
>                  share/pixmaps/htop.png
>
> Le 13/01/2026 à 00:24, Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan a écrit :
> > Thank you for your response, but I prefer Gentoo Linux when I want to
> > work with sources, so I am not interested in working with dports in
> > DfBSD that cannot compile a simple program like *htop*.
> >
> > DfBSD has only one package management system, in my opinion. It is *PKG.*
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM Lucas Holt <lucasholt at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >     Several of the BSDs have at least two ports collections and
> >     package managers that run on them.  If you don’t like one, use the
> >     other.
> >
> >     Lucas Holt
> >
> >>     On Jan 12, 2026, at 5:47 PM, Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan
> >>     <mbzadegan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>     Hey guys,
> >>
> >>     I remembered that many years ago, there was a BSD that used
> >>     "*Pacman*" for its package management.
> >>
> >>     Is it possible to use it in DfBSD? What about other package
> >>     management systems, such as *Portage*, ...?
> >>     --
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> >
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