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On 14/03/13 7:31pm, Chris Rees wrote:
> Packages never supported PREFIX.  You can change PREFIX in ports, at compile time, but once the compilation is done, changing PREFIX will break many compiled binaries.

OK, good to know thanks. So this change from relative tar packaging (pkg_) to absolute paths (pkgng) is a way of ensuring that packages are never portable?

I still don't understand the "prefix" attribute in MANIFEST. I guess it should be removed?


Ari

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