The following reply was made to PR pkg/34817; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34817: [patch] emulators/suse100_base does not install on FreeBSD 6.1
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:34:08 +0200

 > It does not address the potential problems of other packages actually
 > needing /dev to be properly set up.
 
 To further clarify: I realize this is suboptimal, but the "correct" procedure 
 as far as I can tell, is to set up the system such that devfs is mounted on 
 that particular location on boot, aswell as mount it on package install.
 
 The FreeBSD equivalent of this package just informs the user of the potential 
 need to setup /dev, but does not attempt to do so. Even if there are packages 
 in pkgsrc that require this, it feels a bit aggressive for the package to 
 actually automate it, barring some pkgsrc-wide policy for how to handle this.
 
 Opinions?
 
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 / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB
 
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