From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 7 19:45:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17174 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 19:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from mbg.vsnl.net.in (mbg.vsnl.net.in [202.54.12.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17138; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 19:44:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from koshy@bgl.vsnl.net.in) Received: from orthanc.koshy.org (PPP36-155.bng.vsnl.net.in [202.54.36.155]) by mbg.vsnl.net.in (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA28152; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 03:17:42 -0500 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.koshy.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00833; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 07:51:43 GMT (envelope-from koshy@orthanc.koshy.org) Message-Id: <199808080751.HAA00833@orthanc.koshy.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Murray cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Satoshi Asami , vanilla@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/p5-Gtk Makefile ports/x11/p5-Gtk/pkg PLIST In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Aug 1998 21:40:35 +0200." <199808071940.VAA00380@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 07:51:42 +0000 From: Joseph Koshy Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Perl has a number of places that ports can be placed. Assuming that > perl5 is imported into contrib/, lts strt thrashing out where the > "other bits" need to go. Currently there is the "site_perl/" directory, > which can easily stay in ${PREFIX}/lib/perl5/wherever. Ther are a > bunch of other things which normally live under ${PREFIX}/lib/perl5 > (perl extensions, libraries and man pages); where is the best place > for them? /usr/libdata? At least some of these problems are artifacts of having two ways to deal with `external' sources. It would be nice to have a uniform framework within which the "base", "ports" and the "contrib" trees could be handled. Koshy