Klaus Heinz wrote:
> 
> at the moment the default mode of installation pkgsrc supports is the
> "traditional" one: install files into live system as user "root" and create
> package from there.
> 
> Late in 2006 Joerg Sonnenberger added support for installation to a
> directory DESTDIR: copy files as non-root user to temporary directory
> DESTDIR, create binary package from those files and use pkg_add to add the
> package to the live system.
> 
> Although I do not remember seeing this explicitly said anywhere, I always
> had the impression that the intent of DESTDIR support was to get away
> from the current (traditional) method, ie some day in the future pkgsrc
> would use DESTDIR installations by default.
> 
> Is this impression correct? Or is "DESTDIR" installation just a
> nice-to-have feature and takes second place in importance to the
> traditional method?

Your impression is correct, although I don't believe the pkgsrc-pmc has 
made any formal announcement of this fact.  Purely from a technical 
standpoint, it is much nicer to have a single way to install packages -- 
the DESTDIR approach is to only use binary packages -- instead of the 
parallel methods currently used by the "traditional" method that depend 
on whether you are building from /usr/pkgsrc or if you are installing 
from a binary package.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny C. Lam