Pkgsrc Is Cool (2022)
Home Posts Links Mirrors About RSS pkgsrc Is Cool Published: 2021-12-23 22:17:43 -0800 PST Last updated: 2022-04-24 21:06:24 -0700 PDT I think I saw something about pkgsrc pop up randomly in my Mastodon feed a few months ago. And now…well now I’m currently writing these words in a version of Emacs that I built from source with pkgsrc. Pkgsrc is NetBSD’s package manager, but thanks to NetBSD’s portability philosophy, pkgsrc is fully supported as a package manager on other Unix-like operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Solaris.
- ▪Home Posts Links Mirrors About RSS pkgsrc Is Cool Published: 2021-12-23 22:17:43 -0800 PST Last updated: 2022-04-24 21:06:24 -0700 PDT I think I saw something about pkgsrc pop up randomly in my Mastodon feed a few months ago.
- ▪And now…well now I’m currently writing these words in a version of Emacs that I built from source with pkgsrc.
- ▪Pkgsrc is NetBSD’s package manager, but thanks to NetBSD’s portability philosophy, pkgsrc is fully supported as a package manager on other Unix-like operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Solaris.
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| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:53:34 +0000 |
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Home Posts Links Mirrors About RSS pkgsrc Is Cool Published: 2021-12-23 22:17:43 -0800 PST Last updated: 2022-04-24 21:06:24 -0700 PDT I think I saw something about pkgsrc pop up randomly in my Mastodon feed a few months ago. Before that, I had never heard of it. And now…well now I’m currently writing these words in a version of Emacs that I built from source with pkgsrc. Pkgsrc is NetBSD’s package manager, but thanks to NetBSD’s portability philosophy, pkgsrc is fully supported as a package manager on other Unix-like operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Solaris. It supports installing binary packages, but the reason I was interested in it is that pkgsrc supports building packages from source as well.
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