-------- Original Message --------
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
Apparently from: bounces-pkgsrc-users-owner-randux=safe-mail.net@NetBSD.org
To: pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: How to use on OpenBSD? (has Perl-5.8.8 in OBSD base)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:46:35 +0100

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:19:30PM +0200, The masked-coder known as Randux wrote:
> > I'm trying to use pkgsrc in OpenBSD 4.0. I hit a bit of a stumbling
> > block here whilst building Firefox2. Even though Perl-5.8.8 is
> > installed (part of OpenBSD's base) pkgsrc doesn't seem to realise it
> > when trying to build autoconf.
> 
> We don't support mixing Perl from pkgsrc and base, because it creates
> *way* too much issues. It's not worth the hassle.
> 
> Joerg

Hi Joerg,

I'm not sure what you mean by mixing. Are you saying that I should install multiple sets of perl and whatever else pkgsrc thinks is a dependency? That sounds like it would be a lot worse than fixing the overlap.

Thanks,
Rand