Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:14:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: proposed change to samba port Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960125210745.5373F-100000@sasami> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960125212125.396C-100000@knobel.gun.de>
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On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> 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...},...
Um... thats sick. The point about where to install packages to
ease their removal is moot. Use pkg_del or whatever its called.
If you install it by hand then you can put it whereever you like.
> 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 ....
Um... Some things don't have manual pages. The dir structure is not
to blame for this.
> 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...
No, we just need a way to pull this up easily. pkg_info -L maybe?
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