tech-pkg: Re: Program prefixes in pkgsrc

Subject: Re: Program prefixes in pkgsrc
To: Julien Letessier <julien.letessier@sun.com>
From: Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/27/2002 14:19:41

On 2002年8月27日 14:05:16 +0200
Julien Letessier <julien.letessier@sun.com> wrote:
> Users of pkgsrc on Solaris would prefer to have the choice of getting 
> rid of the 'g' program prefix, though it doesn't have to be a default.
> 
> Note that there's no risk to break builds by doing this, since the 
> OS-specific makefile stubs (e.g. defs.SunOS.mk) use absolute paths for 
> the basic tools (mkdir, cd, grep, etc.)
[...]
This carries a problem: there will be two different packages (with the same name)
generated from the same pkgsrc.
My solution would be to create a new package which provides symlinks (or wrappers)
to the g* tools, leaving all other packages intact.
Regards
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Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>