pkgsrc

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2016–2022), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with pkgsrc, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Can't find correct GPG keys to verify the archives2022-10-13
Makefile infrastructure is clunky and slow, documentation is terrible, hard to learn2022-05-22
Package manager is really slow at everything, even printing help text2021-05-26
Packages are oddly organized and badly named, hard to locate, and installing Mac variants is unclear2016-09-21
Package names are strange, so users struggle to find packages they expect2016-08-22