Re: binary pkg "variants" ? [was: Re: Package split or package options?]

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

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> > http://www.netbsd.org/~tho/0002-pkgtools-pkg_install-Do-not-reinvent-pkg_match-for-m.patch
> 
> Not sure why this was there previously - perhaps for efficiency, not
> allocating and freeing memory on every invocation.  Perhaps joerg can
> shed some light?

More predictable behavior in case someone really wants to use <> etc. in
the argument.

Joerg