Re: Proper selection of compression algorithm

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:17:56PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 2 February 2010 16:14, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >> I'm a big fan of moving to a fixed prefix. On the extract question,
> >> maybe one of the pkg_ commands could grow an option to just extract a
> >> package contents into the current directory
> >
> > Well, you can copy the package to a separte directory, use
> >        pkg_add -f -P $PWD pkg
> > or so.
> 
> That loses +INSTALL etc, though its good enough for me :)

No, they get installed to the pkgdb relative to $PWD.

Joerg