From 60f73b40263ee68300fcc3860c7aeebd7250a04c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rillig Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:14:19 +0000 Subject: Made the introduction more user-friendly. --- doc/guide/files/introduction.xml | 23 ++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/guide') diff --git a/doc/guide/files/introduction.xml b/doc/guide/files/introduction.xml index 40319e38a24..40bb520ab4d 100644 --- a/doc/guide/files/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/guide/files/introduction.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + What is pkgsrc? @@ -6,20 +6,13 @@ Introduction - There is a lot of software freely available for Unix-based - systems, which usually runs on NetBSD and other Unix-flavoured - systems, too, sometimes with some modifications. The NetBSD - Packages Collection (pkgsrc) incorporates any such changes - necessary to make that software run, and makes the installation - (and de-installation) of the software package easy by means of a - single command. - - Once the software - has been built, it is manipulated with the pkg_* tools - so that installation - and de-installation, printing of an inventory of all installed packages and - retrieval of one-line comments or more verbose descriptions are all - simple. +There is a lot of software freely available for Unix-based +systems, which is usually available in form of the source code. Before +such software can be used, it needs to be configured to the local +system, compiled and installed, and this is exactly what The NetBSD +Packages Collection (pkgsrc) does. pkgsrc also has some basic commands +to handle binary packages, so that not every user has to build the +packages for himself, which is a time-costly task. pkgsrc currently contains several thousand packages, including: -- cgit v1.2.3