Subj : Re: NetBSD 10
To   : Arelor
From : tenser
Date : Thu Apr 04 2024 03:15 am

On 02 Apr 2024 at 06:46p, Arelor pondered and said...
 
 Ar> 1) Third party components can be built from source and installed
 Ar> automatically, patched and rebuilt if need be, and integrating your own
 Ar> components with the build system is trivial. ie. if you make a program
 Ar> for yourself you can add it to the build system and the build system
 Ar> will make and install a package for it as if it belonged to an official
 Ar> repository.

The big problem with the BSD world these days is that
Linux has become the mean, median, and mode of systems
that open source developers target by default.  As
such, many (most?) of the important standards to ensure
that programs are "portable" across variants of Unix-y
systems are mostly irrelevant, so many Linux-isms creep
in.  It can be a huge pain to transport non-trivial
programs to any of the BSDs.  This wasn't the case back
in the day, of course, but it is now.

Come to think of it, even within the Linux world, the
situation isn't that great.  Things like systemd are
similarly invasive, and systems are developing
dependencies on them (Wayland compositors recently, or
something like that).

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