Hello!
What I want from NetBSD is to have a cleaner base system. Please, don't get me wrong, I really love NetBSD and consider it the best OS ever, but some things really upset me. For example, I don't understand why it's shipped with a lot of third-party packages in the base system (all X11 stack, ctwm, libuv, etc) , when they can be easily installed from pkgsrc.
I know that Abhinav Upadhyay did a great job to completely rewrite apropos to support full text search with man -k
. But now NetBSD must be shipped with sqlite in the base system. Couldn't this be done as pkgsrc package? I liked the old apropos that didn't have any external third-party dependencies. Yes, it lacks some features, but that's why we have the great pkgsrc. From my point of view, the clean design is more important than features 🙂 You know... I like the idea when you have a minimal base system that has enough to boot and to give the Internet access to you, so you can install whatever you want.
Anyway, that's my personal opinion. Don't take it seriously 🙂