From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 16 12:32:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8DAA37B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:32:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from warthog.com (warthog.com [206.132.88.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B34943F18 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zmetzing@warthog.com) Received: (from zmetzing@localhost) by warthog.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id h0GKW6x03997 for ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:32:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:32:05 -0600 From: Zach Metzinger To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Constructive criticism .. Message-ID: <20030116143205.A3959@mercury.warthog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message