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From: "Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd@engineer.com>
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Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in
 pkg_add(1)
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The following reply was made to PR ports/158179; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd@engineer.com>
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 <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>,freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com,freebsd@fokker.solgatos.com
Subject: Re: ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in
 pkg_add(1)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:41:31 +0000

 > 1.  Spell out very clearly its purpose - is it to populate a jail, for
 > example?
 
 Populating a chroot/jail is one purpose.
 
 Another is to test a new version of a package without messing up the
 existing version.
 
 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.