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On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:11:02PM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > Yeah, but I'm always deleting pkgsrc and hosing it
> > around anyway. I would end up deleting this setup all
> > the time. I kind of think it should be in /usr/pkg/etc
> > though...
>=20
> Good point...  Still, since make uses /etc/mk.conf, you could contnue to
> stuff the variables in there if you wanted.  It just seems to me that an
> /etc file is not really the best place for pkgsrc configuration.
> (Especially since most packages get _their_ configuration/etc. isolated
> into /usr/pkg/ by the pkgsrc system.)
>=20
> Perhaps there is a good, technical reaso for using /etc/mk.conf as the
> pkgsrc configuration.  If there is, I'm missing it.

there is a reason. imagine that you are mounting /usr from the network--you
want to have configuration based per host (eg. you are compiling from one
pkgsrc tree on various hosts and installing packages with /usr/local $PREFI=
X)
this is the similar reason why there are introduced variables $PKG_SYSCONFB=
ASE
and $PKG_SYSCONFSUBDIR in the pkgsrc.

regards,

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