Subject: Re: pkg_add woes
To: [This is my bacque pas, this is my faux pas] <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/16/1998 08:15:11
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, [This is my bacque pas, this is my faux pas] wrote:

: any attempt to change the installation directory away from /usr/pkg is
: silently ignored. 

Well, it should be ignored, but not silently so.  _Binary_ packages are
hardcoded to their installation prefix, and have to be (since so much
software takes that prefix and compiles it into the software). 

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)