From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Sep 25 17:13:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DA037B413 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8Q0DEa12806; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:13:14 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:13:26 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can the mess in ports/alpha/packages-4-stable please be fixed? In-Reply-To: <3BB116B4.F967DFB2@embratel.net.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > Why? Dependencies? The links would still be in /All folder. The only > change is where the REAL file is. right. i don't think there are actual breakages in the use, but it breaks the standard. there will be a bunch of package trees where all the files are in All with symlinks and then one tree with files in lots of directories and symlinks in All. i am pretty sure this will catch *somebody* out.. or break something at some point, so personally i would recommend we stick with the existing standard. -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message