> It is a general pkgsrc facility, not specific to NetBSD. On a Mac with > 10.6.5: > osabi-Darwin-10.5.0 Operating System version dummy-package > x11-links-0.61 Shadow tree of links to native X11 headers and libraries > The point of osabi is to capture the previously implicit dependency of > packages on the operating system ABI. If you update the OS, then in > general some packages may break. > The point of x11-links is to provide a way to put shared library links > in the buildlink tree, and to represent the native X11 code as a > package. I wonder how other OSes and other package managers, or lack of package manager, get along without osabi. If I try pkgsrc in Linux, then I run into osabi difficulties if I choose between several kernels? It could also be a nuisance to one who tracks NetBSD-current. But I am not sufficiently satisfied with NetBSD 5.99.44 to want to build any packages, at least until I can go into X and exit back to a visible text-mode console, which I can not do in either NetBSD 5.1 release or stable, or 5.99.44.. Tom