Re: installation prefix with pkgsrc including non-BSD: always /usr/pkg?

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 02:47:40PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:11:19AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Does pkgsrc always install to the same prefix, typically /usr/pkg, even
> > for non-BSD packages that are normally installed in /bin, /sbin, /lib
> > and /include?
> 
> Yes. No installation outside $PREFIX (and maybe $VARBASE in some edge
> cases).

No.

% pkg_info -qL standalone-tcsh
/bin/tcsh
/usr/share/man/man1/tcsh.1
/usr/share/nls/C/tcsh.cat
...

There is no reason to impose arbitrary restrictions on where packages place
packages.

Regards,
Alistair