Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:03:08 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210031555280.14059-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <007f01c26ae2$09b11ab0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > In message <p0511170fb9c130cfa786@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn > writes: > > > > Any famous last words before the fat lady sings ? > > My biggest concern is the minority of users installing expat2 from > ports/packages and then not being able to figure out how to use it, since > they always get expat1 since /usr/bin comes before /usr/local/bin in $PATH. > I'm sure there will also be issues with autoconf-based ports that don't do > proper version checking of libraries which will pick up static libs / > headers from /usr instead of /usr/local as well. Isn't that something that should be incorporated into the system at install time, that /usr/local/bin always should have precedence over /usr/bin? And this shouldn't be something you would have to change manually? As /usr/local/bin always contains newer versions than /usr/bin, if an application is installed that also is in the base system, /usr/local/bin should always "win" over /usr/bin. Or are there some disadvantages over this? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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