Re: Regarding MESSAGEs during pkg_add installation of meta packages

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> writes:

>> Another example is audio/musicpd whose MESSAGE explains, again, how to
>> get it work on NetBSD. The NetBSD in-kernel audio mixer, by default,
>> does not allow multiple users to open the same audio device
>> simultaneously. This is probably good for security but MPD really
>> needs this restriction to be disabled. Upstream should document this,
>> sure, but in reality it's not exactly reasonable to expect them to do
>> that.

I just realized that the right fix is likely (beyond editing into the
man page), to make the daemon read the sysctl on startup and if wrong,
error out with a message to read the man page.