On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:41:31 +0000, Dieter BSD wrote:
1. Spell out very clearly its purpose - is it to populate a jail,
for
example?
Populating a chroot/jail is one purpose.
Corrupting the pkgdb there is a chroot option for that
Another is to test a new version of a package without messing up the
existing version.
it will mess up the database either
There are bound to be other reasons.
Compiling the port rather than installing a package isn't always
a solution. Many ports are incredibly difficult to get compiled.
PREFIX needs to be an install time variable, not compile time.
PREFIX at install time is just broken and can't be anything else than
broken, because lot's of path given a build time configuration path for
example, etc.
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