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re: coreutils and GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX
Jonathan Perkin writes:
> * 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.
this doesn't affect PKGGNUDIR does it? that's what ends
up being /usr/pkg/gnu/bin/, and i'm not asking for any
change to what is installed there.
.mrg.
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