From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 16 14:10:10 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 9235037B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA7A743F18 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:10:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (orb_rules@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0GM9uJB043030; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:09:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0GM9uFw043029; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:09:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:09:56 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Zach Metzinger Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Constructive criticism .. Message-ID: <20030116220956.GA42848@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030116143205.A3959@mercury.warthog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030116143205.A3959@mercury.warthog.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! 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 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:32:05PM -0600, Zach Metzinger wrote: > Let me begin by saying I think y'all do a great job with the ports=20 > collection. However, I think it could be a little cleaner. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > I realize that some packages are difficult to coerce into this install > scheme (with perl being a major offender), but it can be done.=20 This is actually already a feature, though the occasional port may not honor it. Something like /usr/ports/shells/zsh# make PREFIX=3D/opt install works beautifully most of the time (self-built packages also). See also LOCALBASE and X11BASE in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. HTH, --Stijn --=20 "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -- Lilo, from Disney's Lilo & Stitch --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Jy20Y3r/tLQmfWcRAvu0AJ9onwy0iGl1JfRttetrFEVyrLrJDgCffSDc dNmQfQqnjiE1auZS901yGAY= =p5XO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message