Based on our record, pkgsrc should be more popular than Siduction. It has been mentiond 8 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I would also like to mention the community forum (https://forum.siduction.org/) which is of great help to SID users, especially the upgrade warnings. Source: over 1 year ago
When you say "Emacs on Linux?" and blames the GNU/Linux env for having not Emacs newest version it is not really the case. The issue is not in Linux env itself, but in Pop OS. I always easily get the latest stable version for Emacs with just Apt get install emacs But, my distro is based on Debian unstable for many years now and I never had a difficult issue that could not be fixed. In fact, in Siduction, unstable... Source: almost 3 years ago
It seems according to pkgsrc.org that pkgin might follow the PKG_PATH environment variable. You're supposed to set PKG_PATH="http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$(uname -p)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All/", and according to uname(1), -p gives the processor architecture and -r gives the operating system [kernel] release. Source: over 1 year ago
It seems like pkgsrc.org hasn’t got the news yet. Source: over 1 year ago
I still have a Slackware install that runs some really old stuff I have. I remember working at AN ISP in the 90s and slack was are secure distro. All the important stuff (authentication, configs, etc.) were stored and served from our 'slack pool'. Funny part is now I do a very basic Slackware install that setup pkgsrc (https://pkgsrc.org) on it so I can really experience the best and worst of times! - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Today the second article on cross-platform package management has been published. It features a short description of what Pkgsrc and Ravenports are and a longer part on how they compare. The test environment and procedure is covered and of course the results are presented. At the end a conclusion is drawn. Source: over 2 years ago
The second one will contain the results of our two months evaluation of Pkgsrc on multiple platforms and a comparison with Ravenports. Source: over 2 years ago
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