On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 grifo3000@interfree.it wrote:

> yesterday i was wandering if and how is it possible to install packages
> with flags as you can do with the gentoo tool "emerge", for example: you
> can install the package without its manpages, or without anything you
> dont want...
>
> i read all the pkgsrc documentation (i think so), but i've not found
> shell environment variables or other procedures to do the job, yet (yes,
> apart from modify the Makefiles).

Have a look at pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.defaults.mk. Be sure to look at
"Definitions used only in the packages collection".

Not all packages (or Makefiles) have variables for building/installing
differently, but many do.

I don't know of any option (yet) for not installing manpages though.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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