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hi,

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:23:59PM -0500, Charles Zmudzinski wrote:
> Is there a way to prevent pkgsrc from fetching and building dependent
> packages needed by another package because it is already on the
> system?  I just started using pkgsrc and am trying to install gtk,
> which requires perl5 to build. But I want to tell pkgsrc I already
> have a non-pkgsrc installation of perl5 so that pkgsrc won't install
> another version of perl on the system when I build gtk. Forgive me if
> the answer is in the Packages Documentation somewhere, but I could not
> easily find the answer to this question if it is there somewhere.

pkgsrc allows local installation of _some_ software.  perl is not one of
them for consistency reasons.  so to answer your question, no, there is
no way to tell pkgsrc you have other perl installed.


regards,

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