The following reply was made to PR pkg/32544; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32544: CREATE_WRKDIR_SYMLINK is not documented
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:14:01 +0100

 On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:15:00AM +0000, mlelstv@serpens.de wrote:
 > pkgsrc creates work directories in the source directory unless you
 > define the WRKOBJDIR variable in mk.conf or elsewhere. In that case
 > the work directory is created under the given path and a symlink
 > is create in the source directory.
 
 Can you bring up that topic on tech-pkg? Personally I'd like to
 make CREATE_WRKDIR_SYMLINK=no the default or remove it completely.
 It has hidden some abuse in the past and adds problems for shared and
 read-only pkgsrc trees, like you indicated.
 
 Depending on the action being choosen, I'd ask you to provide a patch
 for the guide :-)
 
 Joerg