Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:01:56 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LOCALBASE vs PREFIX Message-ID: <20001012230156.A62778@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <39E68603.5AC4275C@gorean.org>; from DougB@gorean.org on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:48:19PM -0700 References: <vqcog0p68cy.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <200010122128.PAA72178@harmony.village.org> <vqcog0p68cy.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <200010122218.QAA72839@harmony.village.org> <20001012173222.B48659@FreeBSD.org> <39E68603.5AC4275C@gorean.org>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:48:19PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> If we're designing a new system from scratch, I'd like to put in a vote
> for getting ${X11BASE} out of /usr. Personally I would like to see
> everything in /usr/local. I was playing around with some plans the other
> day to try and make a system where most everything was mounted read only
> and finally threw my hands up.
To be honest, if we come out of this with nothing but a plan to
kill having two locations to put stuff, wherever that place may be
(/usr/local, /usr/packages, /usr/FreeBSD, etc..) then I believe we
will have scored a big plus.
Large programs (environments, even) such as GNOME and KDE really go
a long way to showing up the /usr/{X11R6,local} anachronism for what
it is. It should go. Replacing it with a full stowage system
that works would be ideal. Just having everything in /usr/packages/...
would be a major step forward, imo.
-aDe
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Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org
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