On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 08:59:13AM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > But the argument "if something is modified, that"s the problem of the > user" can be reversed: NetBSD provides utilities whose > functionnalities it relies upon. So, by default, the system should use > its utilities, the ones it has been tested with and expects. So base > should always come first by default; user can modify this but in this > case, he is on is own. The system is provided without anything in > /usr/local/ so placing something in /usr/local is modifying the > system. So for the core to still function, it has to be designed to > ignore whatever is in /usr/local for its core functionnalities.
Except that the whole reason for installing e.g. bind or sendmail from pkgsrc is to replace the corresponding functionality in base. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
