Subject: Re: Updating pkg_install on NetBSD 4
To: None <pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 10/09/2007 13:32:24
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> [syspkgs] mandates that pkg_install is available
> as part of the base operating system.

I think syspkgs could manage with syspkg_install and friends implemented
as shell scripts, instead of using the same pkg_install that pkgsrc
uses.  Writing such scripts (chiefly to get sane DESTDIR handling) is
something I want to do if I ever have the time.

--apb (Alan Barrett)