Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:57:46 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: paul@freebsd.org Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependencies Message-ID: <199508280857.KAA00602@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:25:32 BST." <199508271225.NAA00628@server.netcraft.co.uk>
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> Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> > Can't we use the pkg* interface to find out if a package is installed or > not? It's much more robust thatn relying on the path being set properly > for all users who might try and install a port. If we did, we'd have to have make install invoke some kind of pkg_install, as some machines like mine have never actually gone the package install route, (mine for instance has till last week just had a complete ports tree, with regular make all & install, so all ports are there, but very few pkg bits.) Julian S
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