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Re: pkgsrc and path



(Oops, 3-month latency. I was waiting to see if this was going to
create a big flamewar without further help, and then it got buried...)

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:17:08PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
 > In NetBSD 4 the default $PATH contains /usr/pkg directories after /
 > and /usr.
 > 
 > However, crucial packages like pkg_install include binaries that are
 > intended as replacements for binaries in /usr.
 > 
 > In my view either the default path is wrong or these packages are
 > wrong because these two simply do not work together.

Yes, the default path is wrong.

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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