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NetBSD Packages Collection Gets 'pkgviews'

Posted by michael on from the apt-get-still-better dept.

jschauma writes "NetBSD's Packages Collection aka pkgsrc now has support for an experimental new framework called ``pkgviews''. This framework, finally allowing multiple versions of one package to co-exist without conflicts (among other great features), was first proposed by Alistair Crooks at EuroBSDCon 2002 and has been integrated into pkgsrc by Johnny C. Lam, who just posted a User's guide to the tech-pkg MailingList."

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  1. Re:Depot begat Stow, who begat Pkgview? by MobyTurbo · · Score: 5, Informative
    This looks very similar to GNU Stow, which a derivative of CMU Depot.
    They are well aware of that. From the article's link:

    Package views is similar in spirit to the Encap Package Management System, the GNU Stow Project, and the Carnegie Mellon University Depot Configuration Management system:

    http://www.encap.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html http://asg.web.cmu.edu/andrew2/depot/

    However, these projects have a philosophy of "install anywhere, use in one place", whereas package views departs from that model with a philosophy that can roughly be summarized as "install in one place, use anywhere".

  2. Re:BSD Crowd Driven Away by debilo · · Score: 2, Informative

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