Re: PR/41021: devel/mk-files

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41021; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: PR/41021: devel/mk-files 
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:19:55 -0600 (CST)

 On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
 
 >  As I said before I think simply removing devel/mk-files makes the most
 >  sense.  The pkgsrc/mk stuff and bootstrap are presumably all that pkgsrc
 >  needs.  Anyone wanting my mk files, can simpy install mk-20100102.tar.gz
 >  anywhere they want (it is now intended to be standalone) and most
 >  recently tested on a decent sized projct on SunoS, Darwin, Linux, and
 >  *BSD. 
 
 I guess I am very confused ...
 
 How does someone simply find, download, and install "mk" then?
 
 Isn't that the purpose of pkgsrc to help find, download, and install 
 software our users want to use?