Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:32:05 -0600 From: Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@warthog.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Constructive criticism .. Message-ID: <20030116143205.A3959@mercury.warthog.com>
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Hi-
Let me begin by saying I think y'all do a great job with the ports
collection. However, I think it could be a little cleaner.
Quite a few administrators (myself included) who deal with other OSen
such as Solaris hate to see a package modify the base software install
trees of the systems we run. Things that we add go into /usr/local/bin
and never into /usr/bin or /usr/{X11R6,openwin}/bin. I realize that
the package system makes this less of a problem as it keeps track of
where things went, but it's still a very "tree-instead-of-the-forest"
attitude.
I propose that you provide a PORTS_INSTALL_BASE or something similar
that will relocate all ports-installed software to this location. The
default could be /usr/local, for example.
I realize that some packages are difficult to coerce into this install
scheme (with perl being a major offender), but it can be done.
Thank you for your time,
--- Zach
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