ports/158179: some packages do not fully honor -P dir option in pkg_add(1)

[Dieter BSD]

The following reply was made to PR ports/158179; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd at engineer.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD Ports
 <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>,freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com,freebsd at 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. Â 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. Â Many ports are incredibly difficult to get compiled.
 
 PREFIX needs to be an install time variable, not compile time.