From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 25 19:14:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA29277 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:14:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [205.218.122.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA29272 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:14:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA15086; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:14:12 -0600 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 21:14:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Andreas Klemm cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: proposed change to samba port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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? | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|