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Old 15th December 2008
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I am familiar with the article. There are two other very interesting articles on the same page. One is by a DragonFly developer who is in charge of pkgsrc on DragonFly.
At some point he openly admitted that the times of fully portable pkgsrc might be over. The another one is by two developers in charge of pkgjam which will be replacement of pkgsrc.

I saw couple letters containing stuff about pkgsrc on misc[AT]openbsd in december of last year when people were beaching about lack of 4.2 stable packages. In
one those letters the guy have pretty much described installation and use of pkgsrc on OpenBSD.

I saw couple letter on pkgsrc[AT]netbsd about pkgsrc on OpenBSD in which a.out problem is described. Pkgsrc has been last officially tested for OpenBSD 3.5 but I
saw mails describing testing of pkgsrc on OpenBSD 4.3.
It is possible though that I am the only one who actually run pkgsrc on 4.4 current.
It is not something that should be taken upon lightly as one has to do fair amount of knob tweaking in mk.conf in order for compilations to work but it is definitely possible.

As I said I have not tried to play hard enough with X client. The another thing that I would like to play with are sound clients. It would be interesting to see if the ports requiring kernel support for sound could work.

Just to put a bate to the curious. If the sound does work it could be theoretically possible to compile and run the Skype on OpenBSD (I hope Theo doesn't read this).
NetBSD has a Skype 1.4 in ports which does use OSS. The only problem is that
NetBSD uses OpenSuSE as linux compatibility layer while OpenBSD uses Fedora. I would imagine that OpenSuSE libraries could be hand installed and linked to work on OpenBSD. Obviously all of above would be possible only on i386.
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