Subject: Re: Usage of USE_TOOLS (was: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk/tools)
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Mark E. Perkins <perkinsm@bway.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/23/2007 07:29:51
On 2007/11/22 16:41, Matthias Scheler wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:47:35PM -0800, Min Sik Kim wrote:
>> I don't think using native perl as a tool will break existing
>> packages.
>
> It breaks packages which require Perl and a module from "pkgsrc"
> as a build tool. The "gimp" package is an example for this.
> I have therefore backed out your change.
>
> Please do not commit it again until you have tried a bulk build with
> this change and can confirm that it doesn't break packages.

Should the corresponding bump to PKGREVISION in lang/perl5 also be reverted?

Thanks,
Mark