The following reply was made to PR pkg/31064; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/31064: make package should not depend on the install target
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:19:51 -0700 (PDT)

 > which is not straightforward like
 > make && make install && make pacakge as in FreeBSD or OpenBSD
 
 FreeBSD does it the same way as NetBSD -- install before packaging (unless 
 something changed recently). OpenBSD does install to a staging directory first.
 
 > the NetBSD way is
 > $make install clean
 > $make package clean
 > which use too much time to recompile the code and it unbearable as to
 > gcc and perl alike.
 
 That is wrong. Do not use "clean" after install.
 
 Just use "make package clean".
 
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > bmake
 > bmake install
 > bmake pacakge
 > bmake clean
 
 That looks fine.
 
 There were patches for staging support. But now committed and I don't remember 
 why.
 
   Jeremy C. Reed
 
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