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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 04:16:29 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Cc:        Joel <rees@ddcom.co.jp>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches
Message-ID:  <20050524111629.GA75317@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0505232011130.32128@bolivar.ugcs.caltech.edu>
References:  <20050523210818.GC823@zaphod.nitro.dk> <3528.172.16.0.199.1116884292.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050524102414.3A16.REES@ddcom.co.jp> <20050524015142.GA13505@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.LNX.4.53.0505232011130.32128@bolivar.ugcs.caltech.edu>

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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:17:37PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote:
> It might be beneficial (pipe-dream perhaps) if the all the BSDs coalesced
> around one port/packaging system.  I hear that netbsd's port system has
> the metadata necessary to support different OSs and different OS versions
> within one coherent system.

Not likely to happen, although pkgsrc does support running on FreeBSD.

Kris

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