The following reply was made to PR pkg/33874; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christoph Badura <bad@bsd.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: tech-pkg@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33874 (can't download meta-pkgs/{xorg,XFree86} distfiles without setting X11_TYPE)
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:12:22 +0200

 On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:04:36AM +0000, joerg@netbsd.org wrote:
 > Synopsis: can't download meta-pkgs/{xorg,XFree86} distfiles without setting X11_TYPE
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: joerg@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:04:34 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > Since xorg and xfree86 set PKG_SKIP_REASON, this is
 > not a problem of xorg or xfree86. The behaviour is correct
 > to avoid waste of disk space.
 
 Eh?
 
 limiting-factor!bad 146 % cd pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/XFree86
 limiting-factor!bad 147 % make fetch
 WARNING: X11_TYPE=XFree86 is mandatory.
 
 Obviously, it is a problem of xfree86. Same happens for xorg.
 
 And since I just told it to "waste disk space" on what grounds do you
 tell me that I am not allowed to waste the disk space I paid for?
 
 > Patching is in-general
 > wouldn't work either since dependencies have to be installed
 > before the patch phase.
 
 Nonsense. The only possible dependncy that would be required is a
 support patch(1), which has nothing to do with the X11_TYPE to be
 installed.