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Re: newbie destdir question



Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> writes:

> Given a -current NetBSD box, with -current pkgsrc. USE_DESTDIR=yes is now
> the default? So a
>
> cd /usr/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/gnome
> make package
>
> could fill up /usr/pkgsrc/packages with plenty of binary packages ready
> for installation elsewhere, but not install gnome on the build box?
> (Just using all the default variable settings.)

Yes.  But asking to make a package is not what you want; you want to ask
that the package be made and installed:

  make package-install

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