Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk
To: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 05/18/2005 23:28:29
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:42:02PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	pkgsrc
> Committed By:	rillig
> Date:		Wed May 18 19:42:02 UTC 2005
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/mk: bsd.pkg.mk
> 
> Log Message:
> If NO_WRKDIR_SYMLINK is defined, no symlink to ${WRKSRC} is created when
> the WRKOBJDIR is set explicitly. This allows for having pkgsrc mounted
> r/w without actually modifying it.

Thanks for this change.

I'd really like to get away from the definitions which have "NO_" as
a prefix - can we please use something like:

WRKDIR_SYMLINK?= yes
or
CREATE_WRKDIR_SYMLINK?= yes

and then if people don't want the symlinks, they can set the value to
"no", "NO" etc?

Regards,
Alistair