Do you have the time to run up some diffs? :)


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On Wed, 24 May 2000, David Burgess wrote:

> Two things:
> 
> 1)  Using pkg_info would be a HUGE win for me - it would solve dozens
> of problems that I run into all the time.  "pkg_info --short name" for 
> a short ("name.0.0.1"/"No it's not installed") answer, along 
> with a 1/0 (0/1?) exit code would be wonderful, and it would make the 
> conversion of the .mk file really easy.
> 
> 2)  I always use 'make reinstall' instead of 'make install'.  It doesn't
> work from subordinate packages, but it works OK for the main packages.
> 
> David Brownlee wrote:
> > 
> >         (ccing tech-pkg as its more relevant there)
> >         Is anyone strongly opposed to the concept of using pkg_info
> >         instead of .install_done? If not, are any of the proponents
> >         willing to come up with the appropriate diffs? :)
> >