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From: Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9front] installing "extra" packages nowadays?
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:07:33 +0200
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On Saturday, 25 August 2018 17.28.56 CEST you wrote:
> pkg(1) was deprecated, though utility is still available under extra/ and
> the pkg files are still available in their original location.
> 
> Those tarballs under extra/ are source files.

Thanks for the info! Then I will install from source from extra. My first 
experiment that I would like to try is to build an up-to-date pdcurses against 
sdl1 (as alternative to fgb's old pdcurses port).

Is there also a procedure to contribute source tarballs to extra?