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Yes, I really like pkgsrc. It is too bad Linux distros did not embrace pkgsrc, instead we have more package managers then one can imagine. Having one common p
by jmclnx 19d ago
Yes, I really like pkgsrc. It is too bad Linux distros did not embrace pkgsrc, instead we have more package managers then one can imagine. Having one common pkg manager would have made new user adoption easier. But seems Linux does not care about portability these days :(
This is one other thing I get, it is part of a audit report mailed out on my NetBSD system showing vulnerabilities of packages installed via pkgsrc. Yet another thing Linux is missing.
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:10:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charlie Root
To: my_id@localhost
Subject: Installed package audit result
Package x265-4.1 has a denial-of-service vulnerability, see https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13666
Package gd-2.3.3nb17 has a denial-of-service vulnerability, see https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38115
Package gtar-1.35 has a directory-traversal vulnerability, see https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-45582