From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 17 18:14:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bsa-1-as01-7-a49.gd.uol.com.br (bsa-1-as01-7-a49.gd.uol.com.br [200.197.118.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C5637B572 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 18:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lioux@uol.com.br) Received: (qmail 62260 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Jun 2000 01:13:58 -0000 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 22:13:58 -0300 To: Will Andrews Cc: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PREFIX question Message-ID: <20000617221358.A62250@Fedaykin.here> References: <20000617142613.A10384@Fedaykin.here> <20000617135244.B27342@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000617135244.B27342@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:52:44PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:52:44PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:26:13PM -0300, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > > etc/clockspeed/adjust (pipe) > > etc/clockspeed/atto > > etc/clockspeed/atto.tmp > > > > I was just wondering... shouldnŽt I crete them at > > /var/clockspeed? > > Well, there are some ports that break PREFIX-clean rules and install > directly in /var.. but it is possible to install to ${PREFIX}/var too. > > I'm not sure how most people would react to this, but I've always > thought we should have ${PREFIX}/var pointing to /var/local or something > like that, so we can keep PREFIX-cleanness without messing up the > filesystem too much. IŽll second that. Or, some ${VARPREFIX} thing. At least, we would have default PREFIXES for our do-install targets and pkg/PLIST. Regards, Mario Ferreira To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message