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One Weird Trick To Simplify Package Management, Amitai Schlair

2014-03-05 @ 17:45 EST (22:45 UTC) - Suspenders Bar and Restaurant +

Do you use ports on BSD, Homebrew on OS X, and RPM (or whatever) on Linux? Stop wasting your time and effort. This talk will tell you why -- and show you how -- to start using pkgsrc to manage third-party software in the same way on every computer you'll ever have.

Amitai Schlair is a software developer and Agile coach at Morgan Stanley, a board member of The NetBSD Foundation, a non-award-winning musician, and an award-winning bad poet. In his copious free time, he hacks on pkgsrc and ikiwiki.