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# McQuah's CRUX ports
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One of the strengths of the CRUX distribution is
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its unapologetic stance on weeding out unmaintained
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packages, which keeps the core installation
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extremely minimal. Even the contrib collection is
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not safe from these purges, as evidenced by the
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disappearance of such venerable utilities
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like netcat and ncdu. Although these packages are
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recoverable via the gitweb history, the preferred
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option is to let their advocates take over the
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maintenance in personal overlays. Here is my
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overlay---a mix of onetime-official ports (no longer
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in the official repositories, or forked with my own
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customizations) and custom ports that never had an
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official version.
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The build scripts in this collection mostly just
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copy the commands from other sources, including
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upstream, other CRUX ports, AUR, and VoidLinux.
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In most cases it would be too laborious to track down
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the original authors. But if you recognize your work
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and want your name on it, let me know!
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A few ports will generate signature mismatches if
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you use a version of pkgmk that lacks the feature
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for renaming tarballs. Once CRUX 3.7 is released and
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widely adopted, these errors should be a thing of
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the past.
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