On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, George Michaelson wrote:

> Is there a simple way to use the builtin/base perl but use pkgsrc
> otherwise?
>
> I'm guessing that because there is no lang/perl5/builtin.mk the answer
> is NO.
>
> I believe that a shell of a pkg which satisfies the pkg_info state, but
> has symlinks back to the /usr/lib/perl5/... will probably work. Before
> I do anything that disgustingly hackish, I thought I'd ask what others
> do.

There is not any pkgsrc way at this time. Creating a dummy perl package 
and symlinks may work, but depends on what you all use. Also, it will get 
messy when you install a package that depends on various perl module 
packages.

The best idea is to just let pkgsrc provide perl.

Please see
   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/07/16/0008.html
   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/07/16/0011.html
  (and the "pkg_install/libnbcompat on OpenBSD" thread on tech-pkg in
  September 2003)

Good luck,

  Jeremy C. Reed

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