Re: pkgsrc broken on Darwin/OS X

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

I agree - all that should be necessary is to check that a binary
package is available, and, if not, to package it up. I don't think
relying on a separate package to accomplish this is useful, and it
certainly should not be a user-visible step, let alone a fully
interactive, "hold everything while i take care of this" step.

But while PKGSRC_KEEP_BIN_PKGS is still defaulting to no, I do think
something is needed.

On 20 February 2016 at 12:55, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:28:17PM -0800, Alistair Crooks wrote:
>> 3. doesn't require user to be root when running tarup
>
> This can be a problem, a number of packages have files are not generally
> readable. IMO the whole pkg_tarup requirement should be made optional,
> since someone that consistently uses make package simply doesn't need
> it.
>
> Joerg
>