Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 07:51:42 +0000 From: Joseph Koshy <koshy@bgl.vsnl.net.in> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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 Message-ID: <199808080751.HAA00833@orthanc.koshy.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Aug 1998 21:40:35 %2B0200." <199808071940.VAA00380@gratis.grondar.za>
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> 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
<jkoshy@freebsd.org>
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