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I don't understand your concept. Packages are designed to work on all ports except there are limitated or broken. A user don't need to test this, build farms tests these. I don't tested lmms but i looks like despite pkgsrc-users mainertainership is this package very active.
And froma user perspective i try to avoid pkgsrc. Pkgin has everything i need. |
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And that's probably why you don't understand the concept. Its all about advancing pkgsrc.
Users don't have to test anything. But, if you happen to build a package, that by default fails on your particular system, it would be nice if you could upload your adjustments from the moment of a successful build. You could submit your fixes herehttp://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd, but someone will have to review and implement the changes (if accepted). It could be awhile before the changes result in a built binary package available via the NetBSD repository. If there was a publicly viewable archive, the fixes would be available to users before the availability of a repository package. I can't blame you for avoiding pkgsrc. It is not always convenient, unless you are a mad man with an addiction to control over your system(s). Pkgin is very nice, also. |
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