Re: pkg_tarup inclusion in pkg_create

[Martin Husemann <martin%homeworld.netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:07:51PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:55:48AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>  > While I don't object to a retain-recent-N notion, I don't see how that
>  > leads to "no one needs pkg_tarup".  pkg_tarup is a useful tool for some
>  > circumstances, and the default behavior being to retain packages going
>  > forward is a long way from "no one will even need pkg_tarup".
> 
> True, but it does remove the principal need/use for it.

I don't care about "how it is done" or "principal", but currently I can
not "make replace" without having installed pkg_tarup manually.

This is a very essential thing if you do runtime debugging of pkgs.

Martin