Software in Review - OpenBSD 3.9 review

A month or so ago when the bsdtalk podcast interviewed an OpenBSD developer, I wondered what he meant when he said that a mini-hackathon had produced remarkable improvements in the ports tree. Now I'm starting to see.

Software in Review - OpenBSD 3.9 review: "I found the improved package tools to be a huge benefit. Rather than compile everything from source or download the packages and dependencies that I wanted to install, I set the configuration to download packages automatically when I try to install anything from Ports. So I go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and when I run make install clean, a package is downloaded instead of compiling it from source; if a package isn't available, Ports goes ahead with the compilation."