From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 17 2:34:37 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 34FA037B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 02:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com (mailout07.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F1243F7B for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 02:34:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18ZTpH-0001xo-09; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:34:15 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[217.229.217.180]) by fmrl09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18ZTp4-2C5piqC; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:34:02 +0100 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0HAY1bL002126; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:34:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0HAY19j001014; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:34:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:34:01 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Stijn Hoop Cc: zmetzing@warthog.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Constructive criticism .. Message-Id: <20030117113401.09809d25.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030116220956.GA42848@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030116143205.A3959@mercury.warthog.com> <20030116220956.GA42848@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net 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 On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:09:56 +0100 Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:32:05PM -0600, Zach Metzinger wrote: > > 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. Additionally to what Stijn already said: /usr/X11R6 isn't a base system directory. It is like /usr/local, with the difference, that everything in /usr/X11R6 depends on X11 and everything in /usr/local doesn't depend on X11. But there may be ports which don't fit into this scheme (it may be a bug then and needs a bugreport). > > I realize that some packages are difficult to coerce into this install > > scheme (with perl being a major offender), but it can be done. What's wrong with perl, last time I checked it installed into /usr/local just fine? You should CC tobez@FreeBSD.org in the answer, he is the maintainer of the perl port. Bye, Alexander. -- I believe the technical term is "Oops!" http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message