Subject: Re: info files and USE_X11?
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/01/1998 15:33:23
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> won't that make the plotutils package install in LOCALBASE (/usr/pkg) on
> my machine? During the install, the package stuff used
> /usr/pkg/bin/install-info, even though the package (plotutils) was
> installed into /usr/X11R6. It was just when I tried to deinstall
> plotutils that the package tools tried to use /usr/X11R6/bin/install-info
> (even though gtexinfo is in /usr/pkg).
Well, the "installation" was done via bsd.pkg.mk, and the deinstallation
via pkg_delete, of which the latter doesn't have enought intelligence to
know what's special about info-files.
> Is this an issue for all X11 programs which have info files?
Yes.
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>