can pkg be used to install in /opt?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 29/01/2014 18:33, Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> The packages math/goblin and math/glpk can't both be installed in 9.2,
> due to a conflict on a shared library they both try to install. 
> 
> Is it possible to use pkg to install a package in /opt, thus avoiding
> the shared library problem in this case?
> I can't see how to do this with pkg.  The old pkg_add had this ability.

Only if you have packages specially compiled to install in /opt.  Or in
other words, there's no way to install to a substitute prefix --
although you can install into a jail or chroot, but that's not quite the
same thing.

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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