Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:06:46 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCH for Apache: Add FreeBSD Server Layout Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990115070338.16903A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.990114165407.1708A-100000@roble3.roble.com>
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Now if you had 10 applications with as many configuration files you'd
> have *110* different configuration files under /usr/local/etc. How
> exactly would you know which files were associated with which
> applications? Certainly not using `ls`.
The port installs them in /usr/local/etc/apache, so the configurations are
all in one spot, categorized.
> > Storing all your executables in one directory is not simple?
>
> You'd have the same problem as above. No apache executables ever need
> be in a path. Why add more cruft to /usr/local/bin than other (poorly
> patched) ports already do?
Good point, except they're installed in /usr/local/sbin, which isn't in
anyone's path (mod root).
> Take Netscape for this example. They keep libraries in
> /usr/local/{lib/}netscape. When I upgrade Netscape I don't want to
> have to comb through potentially hundreds of files under
> /usr/local/lib.
That's why the ports system is a Good Thing. The ports system creates
packing lists, and if I wanted to know which files were for what port,
it's a grep/awk/sed statement away from me.
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