On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > Better, fix "pkg_add -p". It would be nice, also, if pkg_add respected
> > the environment variable "LOCALBASE". You'd still have to be
> > consistent -- that should be documented in pkg_add(8), under "-p".
>
> I think you missed the problem WRT binary pkgs and "pkg_add -p":
> compiled in paths.

Oh. So when you say "pkg_add -p" doesn't work, you mean it works as
advertised, it just can't fix compiled in paths? Considering how many
packages user shared libraries, or have hard-coded paths to
/usr/pkg/share/..., maybe it would be best to remove "-p" as on option?

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Frederick