Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:02:34 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes Message-ID: <20040120190234.A13333@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <1074619795.757.43.camel@gyros>; from marcus@freebsd.org on Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:29:55PM -0500 References: <1074590694.85583.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <400D2939.5090203@fillmore-labs.com> <1074617147.757.16.camel@gyros> <20040120171315.GH94636@FreeBSD.org> <1074619795.757.43.camel@gyros>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:29:55PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > I agree. This approach seems the most flexible. As for not being able > to do non-root installs, this is a bogus argument as one could simply > override PORT_DBDIR as they would PKG_DBDIR (even with the original > patch). > I was taking about non-root builds, e.g. single ports checked out outside of PKGBASE to do maintenance work, not non-root installs. In an environment where non-root installs are done your argument is valid. Not being able to do non-root builds compilcates the job of maintainers.
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