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Re: Shouldn't "make replace" pull in pkgtools/pkg_tarup?



On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> Also, following your logic (minimalism) why packages required for
> handling binaries (only pkg_install?) are not separated into an
> individual category (bin-bootstrap?),
> i.e. ./bootstrap --without-pkgs-for-building

I don't think ./bootstrap should even be used in that case. Because if 
packages are already available then just use a prebuilt pkg_install too. 
Maybe a tool to unextract pkg_add and then run it to install itself would 
be good (maybe we already have that?).


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