From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 29 11:54:28 2002 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 75F6F37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.qlo.com (blitzen.qlo.com [142.165.150.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C2343E4A for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:54:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shurd@sasktel.net) Received: from sharon ([142.165.59.202]) by mail.qlo.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 blitzen Jan 17 2002 00:23:08) with ESMTP id H4RDXN00.106 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:53:47 -0600 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:11:51 -0600 From: Stephen Hurd To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Importance of using correct hierarchy for ports. Message-Id: <20021029141151.5e803c78.shurd@sasktel.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Well, I've got a popular BBS package that recently went GPL ported and running great on FreeBSD... my question is how important is it ti use $PREFIX/bin, sbin, etc, and so forth? I'll have the port submitted by the time an actual release of the software is out (most likely with the month) but it is really used to having everything under one directory due to it's origin in the DOS world. Not many places actually ASSUME that everything is in that dir, but a good number of them do. How acceptable is creating a new directory under $PREFIX to contain the whole package? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message