Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:45:20 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: paul@freebsd.org Cc: paul@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependencies Message-ID: <199508280745.AAA03593@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199508271225.NAA00628@server.netcraft.co.uk> (message from Paul Richards on Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:25:32 %2B0100 (BST))
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* Can't we use the pkg* interface to find out if a package is installed or * not? It's much more robust thatn relying on the path being set properly * for all users who might try and install a port. That is possible, but I thought it would be more robust to use "which" because we don't know if the user installed the dependency via pkg_add or the ports' "make install". Note that pkg_info looks only at /var/db/pkg. Also, many ports actually invoke these things during compilation and/or installation, so if it's not in the search path, you are dead anyway. :< Satoshi
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