Subject: Re: Proposal: new binary package format
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/31/1999 15:04:41
On 31 May 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:
: > Either by a special tag in the PLIST, or just exclude $PREFIX/share*.
: > I prefer the second one because it doesn't rely on the pkg author doing
: > the rigth thing.
:
: And you will handle all the PRs for cases in which it doesn't work
: because the original application uses "share" inappropriate?
I'll be glad to handle most of these, considering I've announced that I will
be retooling parts of pkgsrc completely.
Of course, from observation the majority of software uses *lib*
inappropriately, not *share*. :>
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