pkgsrc
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 22, 2025first mention
Oct 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“That would be great for mac people if my wild guess is correct.”
NetBSD useron “What the heck is /pkg?”
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“pkgsrc is great”
end user, not a maintaineron “Debian's Git Transition”
“They could take a look at how pkgsrc [1] works.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Debian's Git Transition 2 mentions
- What the heck is /pkg? 1 mention
- Pkgsrc Is Cool (2022) 1 mention
- Homebrew 6.0.0 1 mention
- item 47400413 1 mention
- Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition 1 mention
Data: pkgsrc.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“That would be great for mac people if my wild guess is correct.”
“You can do that with pkgsrc using external tools like Bob”
“It's still a thing”
“https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/bulk.html”
“I still compile software for i386 from pkgsrc”
“package management with pkgsrc is great”
“pkgsrc is great”
“They could take a look at how pkgsrc [1] works.”