From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 12 21: 2:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hub.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C8937B66C for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ade by hub.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13jw2f-000GM3-00; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:01:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:01:56 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: Doug Barton Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LOCALBASE vs PREFIX Message-ID: <20001012230156.A62778@FreeBSD.org> References: <200010122128.PAA72178@harmony.village.org> <200010122218.QAA72839@harmony.village.org> <20001012173222.B48659@FreeBSD.org> <39E68603.5AC4275C@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39E68603.5AC4275C@gorean.org>; from DougB@gorean.org on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 08:48:19PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message