On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Juan RP wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:46:10 +0100
> Moritz Eysholdt <Moritz.Eysholdt@mail.uni-oldenburg.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > im trying to use pkgsrc to set up apache, php, subversion and some more
> > tools on an
> > FreeBSD 5.3  box as an non-root-user. Thanks to Hubert Feyrer's mk.conf
> > everything seems to work fine at the beginning...
> >
> > but, do i realy have to install all the packages again in my own
> > pkg-environment that are already present in the system (installed by
> > root)? I'm talking about gettext, perl, expat, python etc.
> > Is there any way to tell pkgsrc that thesese packages are already
> > installed and could be used to solve dependencies?
>
> You could modify the builtin.mk files to look for the right locations...
> but that sucks and it's not supported by the pkgsrc team.
>
> If you want something stable, install all required packages from pkgsrc.
>

Hello Jaun,

Would you say this applies to just application packages or library
packages too? The question I'm struggling with is where to draw the
line on a Solaris 10 platform.

For example, is it recommended to also avoid satisfying library
dependencies from the base OS (e.g. /usr/lib/*) as much as
possible? Or is there a happy medium? If it's the latter, where/how
do we draw the line?

Eric