Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:37:32 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: proposed change to samba port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960125212125.396C-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <20552.822435971@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> I think that /usr/local/samba should die. It's the odd-man out here.
> I agree with Paul.
Concerning samba I disagree. I still would like to have
/usr/local/samba to see every related program...
Maybe it's because my bonehead is used the Solaris 2.x idea
of packaging system add on packages in /opt/SUNWxxxx/{bin,lib,man}
It's a great advantage to have an own directory hierarchie for
a package, if it's new for you or if you want to see very quickly,
what stuff belongs to the package. Another advantage is, that
you have the manpages in one place.
I really would like packages being installed like in the ports
hierarchie on the CD-ROM...
For example:
/usr/local/www/cached-1.4/{bin,lib,man/man[12345678n]}
/usr/local/sysutils/top-3.3/{bin,lib,man/man[12345678n]}
I'd then make symlinks to /usr/local/{bin,man/man...},...
It's a nice cleaver idea _not_ to have a monster /usr/local/bin
with lot's of utilities.
In the past I have seen many utilities in /usr/local/bin, for
which no manpages are available.
It's not so nice to have such <zombie> utilities in /usr/local/bin...
It's really much more comfortable to have separate directory
structures for your packages. You should relax, try it and
make your own experiences, it's worth !
BTW: ls /usr/local/bin | wc -l 415
-> awful, 415 utilities in /usr/local/bin ...
ls /usr/local/man/man1 | wc -l 335
-> and only 335 manual pages available ....
It's in my opineon much more complicated, if you have to dig around
in /var/db/pkg, to search, to what package an utility belongs...
You have better overview over the contents of a package, when
not putting everything into /usr/local/bin.
I vote for a redesign of FreeBSD-ports and to leave samba
port as it is.
Und jetzt schnell in Deckung gehen .... ;-)))
Andreas ///
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