Subject: Re: docs about package variables
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/16/2002 14:35:37
Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.okt.zwei@onlinehome.de> wrote:
 
> Although bsd.pkg.install.mk has a comment section about them, this has
> been the last place where I searched for a description. Wouldn't
> packages(7) (or even pkg_add(1) and pkg_delete(1)) be an appropriate
> place to mention them as well? After all, the users are supposed to know
> about them and I don't think many of them care about the content of
> pkgsrc/mk/.

It seems to me that package(7) could use a major overhaul and get
synched with mk/*.mk in general.

-Jan

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