Moving from binary packages to pkgsrc

07 Sep 2026 bsd Table of Contents The General Idea… NetBSD and pkgsrc Rebuild all packages Common operations with pkgsrc Notes When I was using Linux, I (most of the time, except my MOPSLinux/Slackware/Gentoo usage) installed software via package managers — there were some already precompiled binaries and libraries, built by someone maintainer(s), with some "default" build options, downloaded from remote package repositories. Most of the time, during "common" usage of my PC, these build options were enough for me. I just used the software "as is" without much problems. First questions started to rise, when I started to use FreeBSD. A lot of packages were built with Wayland support, so, although I'm not using Wayland, I always have some wayland-related packages installed. Of course, I don't want to have some unused libraries and other things in my system, so I rebuilt some packages with the help of ports and Poudriere, as described here: My way to remove "Linuxisms" from FreeBSD. But…