pkgsrc VS dotfiles

Compare pkgsrc vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

pkgsrc

NetBSD/pkgsrc fork for our binary package repositories (by TritonDataCenter)
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pkgsrc dotfiles
4 1
129 12
1.6% -
0.0 8.7
6 days ago 7 days ago
Emacs Lisp
- MIT License
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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pkgsrc

Posts with mentions or reviews of pkgsrc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-08.

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-02.
  • Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2021
    I also use Nix, and agree with these caveats. My personal experience is that it can be hard to initially set up Nix, but once you do, it's rock solid. It's particularly great for sharing config across machines. Here's my personal dev environment for instance: https://github.com/mjhoy/dotfiles/blob/main/nix/nixpkgs/conf...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pkgsrc and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

homebrew-cask-versions - 🔢 Alternate versions of Casks

nix-config - Mirror of http://chriswarbo.net/git/nix-config

homebrew-graph - Creates a dependency graph of Homebrew formulae.

PostgresApp - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac

opensource.how - Open-source etiquette

arkade - Open Source Marketplace For Developer Tools

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