On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, The masked-coder known as Randux wrote:

>
> I'm not asking anyone to change anything, I'm just trying to understand 
> what you are saying because I didn't see an explanation in the pkgsrc 
> user guide of this issue.
>
> Is it correct that if you use pkgsrc on OpenBSD that you are basically 
> maintaining two parallel sets of everything that happens to be common?

 	For the specific case of perl, pkgsrc is setup to build a
 	perl which looks for its modules in certain places, such
 	that pkgsrc perl modules live under /usr/pkg like any other
 	package. Other native programs and libraries are used where
 	reasonable, such as the compiler, flex, libz, etc.

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