From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 25 13:03:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA18880 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:03:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18868 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:03:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id VAA14987; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:45:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA02499; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:40:26 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:40:25 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Joerg Wunsch cc: Charles Henrich , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: proposed change to samba port In-Reply-To: <199601232323.AAA06949@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Charles Henrich wrote: > > > > >It would be best to gather rough consensus among the users first. > > >Feel free to twist arms. > > > > Im against, I like significant system packages to live in their own tree (e.g. > > /usr/X11R6) > > This (as well as X11) is against the policy that /usr can be mounted > read/only. Ok, that's an argument ... I should have read your reply before writing so much ... But I think this problem could be solved easily by permitting packages, that write log / lock - files, to write them to a proper place into /var... Andreas /// -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<