Rubenerd

I’ve been advised on Mastodon and Twitter that some of you think I was paid off or unduly influenced by the NetBSD maintainers to spruik their cross-platform pkgsrc package manager. pkgsrc is a cross-platform package manager by the NetBSD maintainers that’s a cross-platform package manager.

To assuage any concerns that I was uncritical in my approach to discussing pkgsrc, below is a short list of things it cannot install:

• Bagels
• The Firth of Forth
• Season two of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• A coaster depicting Hatsune Miku or Renoir’s La Grenouillè
• Renoir
• A 3D-printed 3D printer
• Apple’s Final Cut Pro X
• A palmtop tiger
• Chocolate-covered mozzarella balls
• Clothing racks, with or without clothing
• A can of compressed air for repairing butterfly keyboards
• Jelly
• Drop-tile ceiling panels
• The source code to either Palm OS or Garnet OS
• Esther Golton’s 2007 album Unfinished Houses
• Silicate sand
• A Japanese maid and/or butler café
• A Teac A-30 integrated amplifier with phono input
• Exactly 3 grams of peanut butter
• Plastic slippers (not that you should wear them anyway)
• Patio furniture and awnings
• Tsundere trope characters, with or without zettai ryouiki
• Apple pies, but with a banana filling
• Carbon nanotubes fashioned into gravity-defying pants
• A 1930s edition of the Encylopedia Britannica
• Knödel