Hi! Having read the brief discussion here, downloaded the pkgsrc
slackware 9.1 tarball from http://www.netbsd.org and installed it using
default values. An old bsd fan (GNU/Linux supports more hardware, which
it why I use it), I chose Slackware due to the similarities to bsd and
to the excellently documented config files. In spite of all my
tinkering around with little knowledge, I never crashed Slack.

BTW the link at the netbsd site to an article called "Slackware Linux
with pkgsrc Packages" is currently broken. Any tips where one can find
it?

pkgsrc runs very smoothly except for the hiccoughs caused by package
maintainers who don't keep their packages up to date when new versions
of the dependencies, e. g. apel for emacs, are elsewhere fed into the
tree. But a friendly email to the maintainer usually produces the
desired effects within a few days. Not having seen what the xemacsers
are up to for some time, I did

bmake

in the /usr/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs-current

directory and let my SMP machine do some work. Occasionally, e. g. for
perl, using the -B (backwards compatibility) switch as "bmake -B" helped
bmake (netbsd users make) complete compilation that otherwise failed
without this switch. Had to use the -k ("complete") switch to get the
xemacs-packages to finish installation due to the version mismatches
(apel and flim) mentioned above.

There is a big set of tools to optimize the compiler in /etc/make.conf
and to generally keep things tidy and under control.

If a lazy, brain-amputated mere end user like yours truly can use
pkgsrc, it is a piece of cake for the rest of you Slackwareians. ;-)

Greetings,

Lux
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