alt Hacker News> pkg_add pkgin
NetBSD noob question: what’s going on with this command? Is pkg_add not a package manager? If you already have pkg_add why do you need pkgin? I am familiar with `pkg` on FreeBSD, and `pkg_add` on OpenBSD, but they are both perfectly good enough on their own, I never wanted to install another package manager.
If you're familiar with Debian tools pkg_add is like dpkg in this case it's used to install the package containing pkgin which is like apt.
Pkg_add simply installs binaries you ask it to and dependencies but can't do searches or broader package management like pkgin.