Re: coreutils and GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2021-02-03 at 03:31 GMT, matthew green wrote:

> can we revert this change from 2012?
> 
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2012/05/27/msg016359.html
> 
> it makes it impossible to install devel/idutils when coreutils
> is also installed now.  this was not a problem for me until a
> sometime semi-recently when 'vlc' build was fixed and now needed
> coreutils installed.

At this point, no.  PKGGNUDIR is entrenched across pkgsrc, and many of
us rely on it to be specific about which utilities we want our target
users to have by default.

For this particular case I'd suggest moving idutils to its own bin
prefix to avoid the conflict.

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