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1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 13:28:32 EST tekk
   Been playing with NetBSD since I put it on my raspberry pi last night. Not horribly enthused, but usable. Package management is pretty bad.
   1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 13:37:35 EST tekk

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      Next up: Plan 9. I think it'd be a great fit for the platform.
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 13:44:20 EST lnxw48a1

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      @tekk I've always heard pkgsrc mentioned in hushed, almost worshipfully reverent tones.
      1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 13:50:56 EST tekk

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         @lnxw48a1 The way to search for packages to install is "go to your friendly local package mirror and look through the directory structure." It also complains constantly, as in with every package you install, because the packages are built for NetBSD 7.0 and not binary compatible 7.1. It provides no way to upgrade packages as far as I can tell: you get a list of outdated packages and it's on you to update them all.
      2. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 13:53:27 EST tekk

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         @lnxw48a1 In essence it was obsolete shortly after it first came out (Apt came out in 98, it released 97) and they haven't updated it since. OpenBSD used to use it but found it insufficient years ago; they wrote their own, new tools which are basically "pkgsrc but usable"
         1. tekk (tekk@social.tekk.in)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 13:56:19 EST tekk

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            Or if they have updated it, then pkgsrc was so woefully inadequate when it came out that it was useless.