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On 12/4/2012 07:14, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> Martin<martin.kelly4000@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> I can see how you could misunderstand what i said.
>>
>> My point was about that each of the BSD's use pkgsrc in a different way and
>> the releases from FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD or DflyBSD don't all rely on the
>> exact same packages for every release (i.e. NetBSD 6 and FreeBSD 9 do not
>> use the same version of GNOME-2 desktop; poor example), and that generally
>> per BSD release they generally blob the binaries that are compatible for
>> that release together.
>
> No, pkgsrc is one for everyone, unless someone maintains his own branch.
> As far as I know, only DragonFly and SmartOS do, though nothing serious
> stops them from using original distribution. Thus NetBSD 6 and FreeBSD 9 use
> the same version of GNOME, provided that they use supported pkgsrc branch.


DragonFly has a git mirror mirror of the pkgsrc cvs repository, but its 
contents are identical to what is in cvs.  I would not classify this as 
"maintaining its own branch".  We use the same distribution as NetBSD.

Just clarifying this statement to avoid misinformation.