[ On Saturday, April 6, 2002 at 20:53:08 (+0200), Alistair Crooks wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: X11 packages outside /usr/X11R6
>
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:53:06PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> > 
> > Well, but is this package "trustable"? I mean... won't it bring me
> > trouble, specially when compiling programs by hand (not with pkgsrc)?
> 
> Personally, I find xpkgwedge to be completely "trustable", but I
> tend to use pkgsrc fairly heavily.

Yes, in the respect Julio means, xpkgwedge is "trustable".  It generally
has no impact on how non-/usr/pkgsrc stuff is compiled and built.  Of
course if you want to use some tool or library that is installed by
pkgrsc during the build and/or execution of a manually installed (eg. in
/usr/local instead of /usr/pkg (aka $PREFIX) or /usr/X11R6) program then
you may have to adjust the configuration to also look in /usr/pkg for
that tool or library as most things will only look in the place they're
being installed for their dependencies.  This isn't a big problem
though, and it makes xpkgwedge no less "trustable".

> I've been using xpkgwedge for
> over a year now, and, over time, we have found and fixed packages
> which were problematic (by that I mean insisting on installing
> under ${X11BASE}, and I would like to see xpkgwedge become the
> default in pkgsrc.

I should clarify from my original post that I too use xpkgwedge in any
case (except on systems where I use PREFIX=/usr, i.e. where it actually
goes against my goal to follow hier(7)), and I too would like to see it
be the default for pkgsrc.

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