Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Currently, the packaging does fail if makepsres is not available.
> 
> If the X11_TYPE is native, there is not a way to get makepsres from pkgsrc.

The question is why does the packaging fail.  Could makepsres be run 
from an INSTALL script instead?  Then as a compromise, we could check 
for the existence of makepsres in the INSTALL script and remove the 
generated databases in the DEINSTALL script.

> You say then the tools framework is not applicable here. ... but I was 
> just following examples already in the replace.mk (see 
> _TOOLS.x11-clients) that have a few other tools that appear to be only 
> available if X11_TYPE is not native.

The existing tools offered in _TOOLS.x11-clients are just assumed to be 
in the native X11 in NetBSD, but for the ones I had originally added, I 
checked to make sure they were actually there.  The code is structured 
so that if you don't specify X11_TYPE, then it's assumed that X11_TYPE 
is native and falls through to just setting the tool path to 
${X11BASE}/bin/TOOL.

This is imperfect because the handling of the X11 distribution packages 
in pkgsrc is imperfect.  We still special-case too much for X11.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>