What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc
SoftwareI’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