Re: Avoiding software duplication

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On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 09:52:44AM -0600, Cág wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Most major Linux distributions include Python in the base installation.
> The EL family, for example, depends on it, since YUM is written in it.
> OpenSSL is pretty much everywhere, too. There are other examples for
> sure.
> 
> For such software, can we avoid using the pkgsrc versions, and use those
> provided by the distribution?
> 
> --
> caóc
> 

at least on netbsd openssl is always used from base, as is a lot of
other things.

I don't think anyone added a python builtin but I suspect it won't know
to look for python packages built by pkgsrc.