Re: [LINUX] Xfixes 2.0.1 broken!

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:48:49 +0900, Thomas Mueller 
<mueller23%insightbb.com@localhost> wrote:

> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:48:18PM +0200, Dario Niedermann wrote:
> > > Is pkgsrc able to tell what's already installed on a Linux system or is
> > > it not??
>
> > No, and it doesn't intend to.
> >  Thomas
>
> How does pkgsrc on Linux know if a dependency is already installed as part of
> Linux distribution, and not build dependencies in redundantly?
>
> Linux does not have a BSD-style base system, everything is part of a package.
>
> Since packages in pkgsrc can't build on thin air, how does one get started
> with pkgsrc on Linux?  I think Jeremy Reed wrote about having a Linux system
> using pkgsrc as the only package manager.  Build basic tools using the
> principles of Linux from Scratch or Cross Linux from Scratch?

Put X11_TYPE=native on your mk.conf, and pkgsrc will try to use native
X11 packages, but you must not mix packages built with X11_TYPE=native
and X11_TYPE=modular (default setting for Linux).

CAUTION from your suggestion (everything is part of a package)
 * update/delete/add of X11 packages from your Linux distribution may break
   packages installed from pkgsrc
 * mixed use of x11 base libraries from your Linux distribution and pkgsrc
   may not work well

So X11_TYPE=modular (use X11 from pkgsrc) is the default setting for Linux.
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