From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 27 15:42:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA26059 for current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 15:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA26048 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 15:42:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA04875; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:38:10 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199512272338.XAA04875@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:38:10 +0000 (GMT) Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andreas@knobel.gun.de, graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199512222113.NAA02901@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Dec 22, 95 01:13:25 pm Reply-to: paul@netcraft.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Satoshi Asami who said > > * I think you're mixing up the idea of config files and startup files, X config > * files will still end up in the X tree which is something we should be a bit > * more forcefull about with the X folks because it's a badly broken concept. > > That's not what I meant. The X ports don't know where the local tree > (usually "/usr/local") is, the way the ports mechanism is designed > now. I made several suggestions on how to solve this (and the startup > file situation), but none was good enough. Ahh, OK. Then Jordan's last suggestion seems to be the ticket then. -- Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)