Subject: Re: Package Views Integration (finally!)
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/23/2003 10:35:34
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Alan Barrett wrote:

: I fully expect that the nice pkgsrc people will have left a knob to tell
: the pkgsrc *.mk files not to create any link farm during "make install",

Anyone wish to clarify on this point?  One of the touted points:

  fully dynamic PLISTs

suggests that installing to a depoted tree would be a requirement.  I
interpreted it this way, and suggested the compromise symlink hack in that
context.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>