Subject: Re: xpkgwedge proposal
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/15/2000 01:06:27
Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> 
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> > Please let me know what you think.
> 
> Looks ok to me, but then I 'm not familiar with the internals of
> xpkgwedge, or even have tried this before. How do big pkgs like KDE and
> GNOME work with this?

They work the same way they do now with xpkgwedge: they (and all
USE_X11BASE package) install into ${LOCALBASE}, and packages that
depend on their libraries automagically find them with the current
LDFLAGS logic in bsd.pkg.mk.  What I've done really only affects
USE_IMAKE packages.

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
        Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
        http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/