On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:15:29PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Say I am using pkgsrc on an OS which already has some of the software
> provided by pkgsrc. For example, OpenBSD -- which already has perl5 as
> part of its base software. Now, pkgsrc does not know that and so when
> some application I am building thru pkgsrc requires perl5, pkgsrc will
> download and install it -- resulting in me having two copies of perl5.

Please search the tech-pkg archive for one of the many threads about
using Perl from the OS. To summarize it, it would mean installing
packages outside of LOCALBASE, add a lot of problems for the packaging
etc. So it was explicitly deemed not worth to do.

Joerg