Subject: Re: syspkg dependencies
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/19/2004 17:59:48
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:59:56PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> What's wrong with using the existing pkg_install utilities for system
> packages?  (A genuine question, I know that David has a lot more
> experience in this area than I do).

The problem is that there are bugs in the utilities (such as the one
Alan describes), and it is really hard to fix bugs in the utilities' code.

Dave

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