Re: pkg/19261: emacs.mk does not handle "emacs comes with base system"

[Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/19261; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/19261: emacs.mk does not handle "emacs comes with base system"
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:13:03 +0200

 The current approach is to prefer to install pkgsrc software over system 
 provided one, because other packages often depend on the directory 
 structure of the pkgsrc package. This has been done for Perl recently, 
 and Emacs is a similar "base package".