Subject: Re: getting pkgsrc to PREFER_NATIVE
To: Juan RP <xtraeme@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/17/2004 11:18:29
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Juan RP wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 02:48:06 +0200 (MEST)
> "Anthony de Almeida Lopes" <guerrilla_thought@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > What about using native copies of other things? like bzip2, db, cracklib and
> > flex?
>
> All these packages already are handled by bsd.builtin.mk, except cracklib (it's
> a linux specific pkg, not *BSD or other systems).

Why is cracklib specific to Linux? I notice it is on my NetBSD box and it
provides some bin/ utilities in addition to the library.

Or do you mean it doesn't matter if we choose to use native on Linux or
not? (On Linux, always use the package?)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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