On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> I've moved the location of bsd.port.mk and bsd.port.subdir.mk, from
> src/share/mk into pkgsrc/mk. This means that people can now grab the
> pkgsrc.tar.gz, install the relevant package Makefiles
> 
> 	(cd pkgsrc/mk ; make install)
> 
> and then use the packages collection with the relevant files in sync.

This seems like a wonderful thing.  However, is there any reason not to
include those files directly from /usr/pkgsrc?  Why bother to install them
in /usr/share/mk, when they're not (as far as I know) relevant to anything
besides pkgsrc, and when pkgsrc Makefiles change as the *.mk files change?

Chris

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