Re: pkgsrc broken on Darwin/OS X

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 01:07:32PM -0800, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 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.

Don't get me wrong, it is certainly an improvement. I was just saying
what problems you might run into.

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

Just because it is set to NO doesn't mean make package wasn't used. So
checking first would indeed be the better idea.

Joerg