Re: pkgsrc or dfports?

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:25:35PM +0200, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity, when mixing ports+dfport & pkgsrc ports having the 
> > target directory /usr/local what great evil will happen?
>
>
> You should not mix ports and pkgsrc with the same LOCALBASE. There's
> a reason for having /usr/pkg afterall. There's no problem on the other
> site to have a mostly pkgsrc system with a few ports. It might just result
> in some duplicates being installed.
>
> Note: if you don't like /usr/pkg, you can choose a different root. In contrast
> to ports, that's much better tested and should work out of the box.
>
>
> > I also saw that pkgsrc in the dragonfly incarnation uses bmake, whats up 
> > with that why not make?
>
>
> NetBSD's make (aka bmake) and our make are not feature compatible. It is unsure
> whether they can ever be, but making them more compatible is one of Max's goals,
> if I'm not mistaken.

Aha, last question before I install pkgsrc too :-) :
I presume that it's only a default to install pkgsrc ports in the pkgsrc 
LOCALBASE, say that I like to install apache in /usr/local but my pkgsrc 
LOCALBASE var is set to /usr/pkg how should I proceed?

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mph