Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:44:14AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> I've fixed this now, but I suggest you complain to the person who
> made the previous change (Joerg) without documenting it whatsoever.

NO_WRKDIR_SYMLINK (the older name) was added in 2005 before I was even a
developer and changed a bit later to CREATE_WRKDIR_SYMLINK based on your
suggestion. So don't blame me for not adding text to the pkgsrc guide.

The behavior of the symlink as stated in the mail to tech-pkg directly
violates your own reasoning in the original commits: WRKOBJDIR is not
making the pkgsrc tree read-only. This has created confusing over the
year I was participating in pkgsrc (I don't even bother to look for
older examples) and the older behavior can be restored by setting the
variable explicitly.

Joerg