From owner-freebsd-pkg@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 29 20:36:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A5F1BC5 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm27-vm6.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm27-vm6.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [216.109.115.229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B83911300 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.196.81.163] by nm27.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Jan 2014 20:36:38 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.240] by tm9.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Jan 2014 20:36:38 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Jan 2014 20:36:38 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1391027798; bh=8rPLHe1ek6a/JeCyFtpSlGzNQ+uO5qZ+TtbpgCcwF8E=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-Rocket-Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=6gQ48caflfrkvAtohzz48WRC23pVJ/zNq/Mgm7f7uY8mow45cHS1P0YmsGVTmDpwj05wHdMeeIVdDcv0grb+/kqkf6Outkm6nnW3p6bSmHO3cZbDE/Cy8l5EPuJ1ZGnd3aDseYqHq4vypKNztIT6KsWUQBfOCiydY8gsAbmpypY= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 167510.25721.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: yb97eDEVM1kB42eqb1RyOWQBuB1UIFN6h5Xsk3LKhPTHn1N 4m.0zsspUA4xXttL42e7scvwpHRQmPcRfXFzJiqLXm8Dpw6icP2UEeTfsk1b L0hkDZh2wsUhXJnxBhW1rE.hcvIFfaIEPB.LRs2Keb9g6948Q0iv3CQAVgSJ LCJx.1tVL268qnsZ_OPT0hjaBKF_0X4vXPtL8qxdB60jdCJrArqJfeTjmxJE aD7c2fvTTYdvtg.x15WTfv0YO_i2Rq3x5x2H8YvXEUrkByJ_I1i52elHIvPV ppc.g4y8Jg.eGrlV8Mq90FxEBHB15F2uIT6XtN4C75iivo1kWDKc.CIq0pxr .io.WYz3At_ddAFmzCuTqpzomeGCU5pQlUCzVoOcusIq3bGpP0PPBfOZgTMW iRrgfoXXvaTJCf8JRkZuNUDdcS332yj3ji4Zqk7nTQpoopzjsMKuqAp8H.Ke axdMHHQExjdd_1Sycrz6Ub7SmeTX5_0OZrmW9yw3_Dj60h93EIHSggj6k6q9 eQX.lNzBFP_FNPKg4GGMDzSeVyixsTjTAklQFlaYjWwN8iDG3MvhZGbZc.04 WOPpqGADFQP4- X-Yahoo-SMTP: dQDeuIqswBBZlqxPL_idatjeqZFsZlQC4MQ5I3DYpsI- X-Rocket-Received: from [135.207.130.101] (k.oikonomou@135.207.130.101 with plain [98.138.31.74]) by smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jan 2014 12:36:38 -0800 PST Message-ID: <52E96680.9070208@att.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:37:20 -0500 From: Kostas Oikonomou User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can pkg be used to install in /opt? References: <52E9496E.2030702@att.net> In-Reply-To: <52E9496E.2030702@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Binary package management and package tools discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:36:46 -0000 Matthew, Mark, thanks for replying. I ended up editing the Makefile of /usr/ports/math/goblin to set PREFIX = /opt/local, and installed the port. Still, it seems to me that the ability to install a package to a different prefix is, occasionally, useful. What was the reason for removing it from pkg, when pkg_add had it? Kostas