What about using native copies of other things? like bzip2, db, cracklib and
flex? 

- tony

there's still no way to do a fake install?


> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote:
> 
> > > PREFER_* is used by builtin.mk in the buildlink3.mk system.
> > >
> > > You can not use it to choose the "perl" you want.
> 
> > is there a way to fake installs yet?
> 
> "You don't do that for Perl."  Really.  No, honestly, trust me.  pkgsrc
> *needs* its own copy of perl, and there's no way around that.
> 
> (The main issue is that most perl modules installed from pkgsrc will not
> have correct PLISTs -- and thus can't be properly installed or
> deinstalled.
> There are other issues, but suffice it to say that pkgsrc cannot, and will
> not, support an external perl.)
> 
> -- 
> -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>
> 

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