The following reply was made to PR pkg/31490; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de
Subject: Re: pkg/31490: pkgsrc stomps on *BSD make variable namespace
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:54:13 -0700 (PDT)

 On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Hauke Fath wrote:
 > 	A clean solution would be to keep pkgsrc make variables in a
 > 	seperate namespace.
 
 Also see bottom two paragraphs of 
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/09/22/0031.html
 
   Jeremy C. Reed
 
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