Re: PRIVILEGED_STAGES (was: CVS commit: pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkglint/files)

[Bernd Ernesti <veego%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:31:30PM +0100, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:59:35PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > > Did I say all packages depending on that should be converted to
> > > user-destdir? :-)
> > 
> > That is your opinion, but not the reality, where use-destdir is not
> > the default and not mandatory.
> 
> Not knowing what this is about, I want to note that while DESTDIR support
> is not the default _now_ it will be in the future.
> I would conclude from this decision  (see
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2008/01/09/0016.html)
> that it is "kind of mandatory" or at least "strongly recommended" because
> sooner or later we must deal with those problems anyway.

Does this mean that I can no longer build a package in the future from source
and install it, without creating a binary package, which I don't need?

Bernd