Re: pkg/43915 (devel/doxygen fails to install)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43915; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/43915 (devel/doxygen fails to install)
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:11:18 +0000

 On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:55:02AM +0000, J?rn Clausen wrote:
  >  I can't tell. devel/doxygen is not needed any more as a dependency for 
  >  my packages, and at the moment I don't want to test the installation 
  >  when it could result in a half-installed package that is not registered.
  >  
  >  Either someone else has to confirm this, or the answer has to wait.
 
 Unless you've disabled destdirs (which have been the default for a
 while now) you can test it safely by making stage-install. You can
 theoretically do this as a non-root user, too, although there are some
 signs in the package makefile that it may not work that way.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost