[1713] in NetBSD-Development
Re: netbsd-athena vs packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Wed Jul 1 23:23:25 1998
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 01 Jul 1998 23:23:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: Dan Winship's message of Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:16:49 -0400
Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> It'd be really neat, and not _too_ hard, to have the NetBSD install
>> process install appropriate magic into /var/db/pkg/ to register the
>> athena copy of perl5 (and anything else relevant) with the package
>> system, so that if you try to install packages that depend on perl5,
>> it recognizes the copy in /usr/athena and doesn't install another copy
>> in /usr/pkg.
>>
>> Not likely for the 8.0 release, I know.
>>
>> I'll probably implement this in my copious free time if no one else
>> who has copiouser free time is psyched.
Even neater would be to make a bunch of packages which had
netbsd-athena in them. I'm also willing to help with this.
Marc
